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But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing
pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete
account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great
explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one
rejects, 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 pursues or desires to obtain pain
of itself, because it is pain, but because 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?
But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing
pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete
account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great
explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one
rejects, 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 pursues or desires to obtain pain
of itself, because it is pain, but because 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?
But
I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing
pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete
account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great
explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one
rejects, 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 pursues or desires to obtain pain
of itself, because it is pain, but because 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?
DID YOU