Suppose we conjecture that the only thing intrinsically valuable is pleasure and the only thing intrinsically bad is pain.

假设我们推测出唯一,拥有固有价值的东西是快乐,唯一一样自身是坏的东西是痛苦。

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He had a famous phrase to express this idea, "The quantity of pleasure being equal, pushpin is as good as poetry."

他有一句名言表达此观点，只要快乐的总量相等，针戏与诗一样好“

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But more importantly,more successful in just as the currency of happiness and wellbeing.

更重要的是，我将“更成功,正如快乐货币和幸福货币一样。

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suppose we make for, the moment, the bold conjecture, the philosophical claim, that not only is pleasure and the absence of pain, not only is pleasure one good thing and pain one bad thing.

假设此刻我们做出大胆猜测，哲学声称，不仅只,快乐和没有痛苦，快乐不止是一样好的东西，痛苦不止是一样坏的东西。

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And they end this paper with the following quote: "It may be that trying to be happier is as futile as trying to be taller " and is therefore counterproductive."

论文用以下这句话作结尾：,“想变得更快乐,和想变高一样徒劳,只会适得其反“

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