After Vice has offered Heracles rapid access to happiness through pleasure,
Virtue exclaims:
What can you know of real pleasure...? You fill yourself full of everything even before you feel the need. Before feeling hunger, you eat; before feeling thirst, you drink ... You train your friends, behaving arrogantly at night and sleeping through the most useful hours of the day. You never hear praise, the most pleasant of all things to hear; and you never see the most pleasant of all things to see: for nothing is more pleasant to see than one's own noble work.