Full Idea
It is reasonable that people should be eager for pleasure; because it perfects life for each individual, and life is a thing to choose.
Gist of Idea
It is right to pursue pleasure, because it enhances life, and life is a thing to choose
Source
Aristotle (Nicomachean Ethics [c.334 BCE], 1175a15)
Book Reference
Aristotle: 'Ethics (Nicomachean)', ed/tr. ThomsonJ A K/TredennickH [Penguin 1976], p.322
A Reaction
It is so nice to hear that pleasure is a good thing. Compare Socrates in 'Gorgias', who tries to prove that pleasure is not at all what we want. Life with no pleasure is not much of a thing.