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Just as a stream flows smoothly on as long as it encounters no obstruction, so the nature of man and animalis such that we never really notice or become conscious of what is agreeable to our will; if we are to noticesomething, our will has to have been 26 . On the other hand, all that opposes, frustrates and resists our will,that is to say all that is unpleasant and painful, impresses itself upon us instantly, directly and with great clarity.Just as we are conscious not of the healthiness of our whole body but only of the little place where the shoepinches, so we think not of the 27 of our successful activities but of some insignificant trifle or other whichcontinues to vex us. On this fact is founded what I have often before drawn attention to: the negativity of wellbeing and happiness, in28 to the positivity of pain.I therefore know of no greater absurdity than that absurdity which characterizes almost all metaphysicalsystems: that of explaining evil as something negative. For evil is precisely that which is positive, that whichmakes itself 29 ; and good, on the other hand, i.e. all happiness and all gratification, is that which is negative,the mere30 of a desire and extinction of a pain.This is also consistent with the fact that as a rule we find pleasure much less pleasurable, pain much morepainful than we expected.
26.
(A) bilked
(B) encouraged
(C) thwarted
(D) guarded

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