Aphorisms of Bṛhaspati 2.3: Sarvadarśanasaṅgraha

2.3

tyājyaṃ sukhaṃ viṣayasaṃgamajanma puṃsāṃ duḥkhopasṛṣṭam iti mūrkhavicāraṇaiṣā /
vrīhīñ jihāsati sitottamataṇḍulāḍhyān ko nāma bhos tuṣakaṇopahitān hitārthī //

"The pleasure born from contact with sense objects should be abandoned by men because it is tainted by pain"—this is the reasoning of fools. / What seeker of his own good, indeed, discards grains of rice, rich with white, supreme kernels, because they are covered with husk and chaff?

"Pleasure born of contact with objects must be given up, because it is mixed with pain" — that is a fool's reasoning. Who, seeking his good, would throw away rice rich in fine white grains because it comes in husks?