But I must explain to you know all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give a complete account of the system,expound the actual teaching of the great explorer of the truth , the master-builder of human happiness. No one reject, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful.Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursue or desires to obtain pain of itself,because it is pain,but because it is occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it?But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure?
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