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 te master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because pleasure but beca use those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painf 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. take a trivial exam which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has a ny right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one wh 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 te master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because pleasure but beca use those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painf

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. take a trivial exam which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has a ny right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one wh avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure