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. Nor again is there anyone who loves 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 avo
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