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The document discusses how the idea that pleasure should be denounced and pain praised originated, and how the great explorer of truth taught the actual system of human happiness. It explains that no one rejects pleasure itself, only when pursued irrationally it can lead to pain, and that no one seeks pain itself but sometimes pain endured can lead to future pleasure, like physical exercise for health.

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The Lorem PDF

The document discusses how the idea that pleasure should be denounced and pain praised originated, and how the great explorer of truth taught the actual system of human happiness. It explains that no one rejects pleasure itself, only when pursued irrationally it can lead to pain, and that no one seeks pain itself but sometimes pain endured can lead to future pleasure, like physical exercise for health.

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[32] But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing of a pleasure and

praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the 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 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

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