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.
Events
27th July
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
29th July
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
31st July
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
