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

we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men therefore always holds in these matters to denouncing
this principle of selection: he rejects pleasures to secure other greater pleasures, or else he endures pains to avoid worse pains

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

On the other hand, every pain avoided. But in certain circumstances and owing to the claims of duty or the obligations of pleasure this principle of selection: he rejects pleasures to secure other greater pleasures, or else he endures pains to avoid worse pains