Explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasures sed 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. and praising pain was born and I will give the actual teachings.

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.

We denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charm of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire, that they cannot foresee the pain ut and trouble that are bound to ensue; and equal blame belongs to those who fail in their duty through weakness of will, which is the same as saying uts through shrinking from toil and pain These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish.