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The document discusses the misconceptions surrounding pleasure and pain, arguing that pleasure is inherently desirable while pain is often pursued for the potential pleasure it can bring. It emphasizes that individuals should rationally pursue pleasure to avoid painful consequences. Additionally, it critiques those who are overly consumed by immediate pleasures without considering their long-term effects.

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Document Office2003

The document discusses the misconceptions surrounding pleasure and pain, arguing that pleasure is inherently desirable while pain is often pursued for the potential pleasure it can bring. It emphasizes that individuals should rationally pursue pleasure to avoid painful consequences. Additionally, it critiques those who are overly consumed by immediate pleasures without considering their long-term effects.

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<p>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 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</p>

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