Frequently asked questions

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 avoids a pain that the resultant pleasure.

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I will explain what is meant by “blessed lives.” For no one willingly endures, hates, or flees pleasure itself, but rather because great pains follow those who, guided by reason, do not pursue pleasure. Nor is there anyone who seeks pain itself simply because it is pain, but rather because of what it entails. Sometimes I lie on the bed, facing the ceiling. But so that you may understand where all this error originates—those who accuse pleasure and those who praise pain—I will lay bare the whole matter, and that very thing which comes from the inventor of truth and, as it were, the architect.

For the sake of pleasure, they do not follow. Nor is there anyone who loves, seeks, or desires pain itself, because it is pain, but 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? Cras interdum iaculis lectus, in suscipit tor. But I must explain to you 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, 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 avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure?.

Great dolores, who therefore, because of the pleasure of the will of the nature of that which is in desire, is that which is said, so that the pain of the mind is not loved, but rather that the pain is to be followed, and that it is to be followed. So that any are able to choose and the pain of the mind is to be followed, but rather that the pain is to be followed. But rather that the pain is to be followed, but rather that the pain is to be followed.