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 thactual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejectsdislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how tpursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. Nor again is theranyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of 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 anyright to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has ffannoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure?»exercitationem ullam corporsuscipit laboriosam, nisi ut aliquid ex ea commodi consequatur? Quis autem vel eum iure reprehenderit qui in