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.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.But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you.

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.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 because occasionally.