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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?
At vero eos et accusamus et iusto odio dignissimos ducimus qui
blanditiis praesentium voluptatum deleniti atque corrupti quos
dolores et quas molestias excepturi sint occaecati cupiditate
non provident, similique sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt
mollitia animi, id est laborum et dolorum fuga. Et harum quidem
rerum facilis est et expedita distinctio. Nam libero tempore,
cum soluta nobis est eligendi optio cumque nihil impedit quo
minus id quod maxime placeat facere possimus, omnis voluptas
assumenda est, omnis dolor repellendus. Temporibus autem
quibusdam et aut officiis debitis aut rerum necessitatibus
saepe eveniet ut et voluptates repudiandae sint et molestiae non
recusandae. Itaque earum rerum hic tenetur a sapiente delectus,
ut aut reiciendis voluptatibus maiores alias consequatur aut
perferendis doloribus asperiores repellat.
On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and
dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of
pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire, that they cannot
foresee the pain and trouble that are bound to ensue; and equal
blame belongs to those who fail in their duty through weakness
of will, which is the same as saying through shrinking from toil
and pain. These cases are perfectly simple and easy to
distinguish. In a free hour, when our power of choice is
untrammelled and when nothing prevents our being able to do what
we like best, every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain
avoided. But in certain circumstances and owing to the claims of
duty or the obligations of business it will frequently occur
that pleasures have to be repudiated and annoyances accepted.
The wise man therefore always holds in these matters to this
principle of selection: he rejects pleasures to secure other
greater pleasures, or else he endures pains to avoid worse pains.