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The document discusses the philosophical concepts of pleasure and pain, arguing that pleasure is inherently desirable while pain is often pursued for the potential benefits it may bring. It highlights the importance of rationally pursuing pleasure to avoid negative consequences. The text also critiques those who are overly consumed by immediate pleasures without considering long-term effects.

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The document discusses the philosophical concepts of pleasure and pain, arguing that pleasure is inherently desirable while pain is often pursued for the potential benefits it may bring. It highlights the importance of rationally pursuing pleasure to avoid negative consequences. The text also critiques those who are overly consumed by immediate pleasures without considering long-term effects.

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AGaraganBut 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 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? On the other hand, we denounce with
righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized
by the charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire, that they
cannot foresee

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