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But so that you may see where all this error of those who accuse pleasure and praise pain comes from, I will open the whole matter, and I will explain the very things that were said by that discoverer of truth and, as it were, the architect of a happy life.

 

but because great pains follow those who do not know how to follow pleasure with reason. Nor is there anyone who loves, pursues, or desires to obtain pain itself because it is pain, but because times of that kind not infrequently occur when he seeks some great pleasure through labor and pain. For to come to the smallest detail, who of us undertakes any laborious exercise of the body, except that some benefit may be derived from it?