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But so that you may understand where all this error—which accuses pleasure and praises pain—originates, I will lay bare the whole matter and explain those very things that were spoken by the inventor of truth and, as it were, the architect of the blessed life. For no one would ever endure, hate, or flee pleasure itself simply because it is pleasure, but rather because great pains follow those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally. Nor is there anyone who loves pain itself—simply because it is pain—or seeks to acquire it; rather, it is because there are times when, through toil and pain, one seeks some great pleasure. For, to put it simply, who among us would willingly endure the laborious exercise of the body unless it were to yield some benefit? And who would justly reproach the one who seeks to be in that pleasure—which brings no trouble—or the one who flees from pain because it offers no pleasure to match it?
But so that you may understand where all this error—which accuses pleasure and praises pain—originates, I will lay bare the whole matter and explain those very things that were spoken by the inventor of truth and, as it were, the architect of the blessed life. For no one would ever endure, hate, or flee pleasure itself simply because it is pleasure, but rather because great pains follow those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally. Nor is there anyone who loves pain itself—simply because it is pain—or seeks to acquire it; rather, it is because there are times when, through toil and pain, one seeks some great pleasure. For, to put it simply, who among us would willingly endure the laborious exercise of the body unless it were to yield some benefit? And who would justly reproach the one who seeks to be in that pleasure—which brings no trouble—or the one who flees from pain because it offers no pleasure to match it?
