We deprive ourselves to maintain our integrity, we spare our health, our ability to enjoy life, our emotions, we save ourselves for something without even knowing what that thing is. And this habit of constantly repressing our natural drives is what makes us so refined. Why don't we get drunk? Because the shame and inconvenience of headaches give rise to a more important displeasure than the pleasure of drunkenness. Why don't we fall in love again every month? Because, at the time of each separation, a part of our hearts is broken. Thus, we try harder to avoid suffering than to seek pleasure.