It was a calculation and balancing of pleasures and pains.

Its object was a judicious selection of pleasures to be sought.

It teaches men to forego idle wishes, and to despise idle fears.

_Temperance_ is the management of sensual pleasures.

It seeks to avoid excess, so as on the whole to extract as much pleasure as our bodily organs are capable of affording.
_Fortitude_ is a virtue, because it overcomes fear and pain.