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Again, assuming the Chief Good to be perfect and all Movements[6]

and Generations imperfect, they try to shew that Pleasure is a

Movement and a Generation.

Yet they do not seem warranted in saying even that it is a

Movement: for to every Movement are thought to belong swiftness

and slowness, and if not in itself, as to that of the universe,

yet relatively: but to Pleasure neither of these belongs: for

though one may have got quickly into the state Pleasure, as into

that of anger, one cannot be in the state quickly,[7] nor

relatively to the state of any other person; but we can walk or

grow, and so on, quickly or slowly.

Of course it is possible to change into the state of Pleasure

quickly or slowly, but to act in the state (by which, I mean,

have the perception of Pleasure) quickly, is not possible.