An idea from Nicomachean Ethics

Pleasure is not the good itself, though some pleasures are worth choosing. It completes an activity done well, like the bloom on someone in their prime. People who enjoy geometry get better at it, and theatre crowds eat the most sweets when the actors are bad.

From Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle

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