The great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness worksone rejects, dislikes, avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely seds painful the master-builder of human happiness rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pursue pleasure.
Who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain, 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.
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Steven Rich – Sep 17, 2016:
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.
William Cobus – Aug 21, 2016:
there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain itself, because it is pain, because occasionally circumstances occur some great pleasure.