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| 2 Jul 2024 | |
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"But 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 the blessed life. For no one despises or hates or flees pleasure itself because it is pleasure, but because great pains follow those who do not know how to follow pleasure with reason. Nor is there anyone who loves, pursues, or wishes to attain pain because it is pain, but because such times as these occur not infrequently that he seeks some great pleasure through toil and pain. For to come to the smallest detail, which of us undertakes any laborious exercise of the body, unless to obtain some benefit from it? But who would rightly blame either him who wishes to be in that pleasure which results in no discomfort, or him who flees that pain which pleasure produces no pain?
"But 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 the blessed life. For no one despises or hates or flees pleasure itself because it is pleasure, but because great pains follow those who do not know how to follow pleasure with reason. Nor is there anyone who loves, pursues, or wishes to attain pain because it is pain, but because such times as these occur not infrequently that he seeks some great pleasure through toil and pain. For to come to the smallest detail, which of us undertakes any laborious exercise of the body, unless to obtain some benefit from it? But who would rightly blame either him who wishes to be in that pleasure which results in no discomfort, or him who flees that pain which pleasure produces no pain?
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