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Full Idea
One should choose not every pleasure, but only that concerned with the beautiful.
Clarification
'Beauty' is the Greek word 'kalos', which also translates as 'fine'
Gist of Idea
We should only choose pleasures which are concerned with the beautiful
Source
Democritus (attrib) (reports [c.250 BCE], B207), quoted by John Stobaeus - Anthology 3.05.22
Book Ref
'Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers', ed/tr. Freeman,Kathleen [Harvard 1957], p.111
A Reaction
The pleasures we should prefer are those which involve the whole person, rather than the mere stimulation of one sense. Sez me.