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But in order that you may understand whence all this was born, I am telling you the pleasure of accusing and praising the pain, I will open the whole thing, and will explain the very things which were said by that inventor of the truth and as it were the architect of the blessed life. For no one rejects, or hates, or shuns pleasure, because it is pleasure itself, but because great pains result from those who do not know how to follow pleasure by reason. Moreover, there is no one who desires to obtain pain itself because pain is important, enhanced, but because times of such a nature do not occur so that by toil and pain he may seek some great pleasure. For, to the slightest degree, any one of us undertakes any laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it. Who, however, rightfully condemns him who wishes to be in that pleasure which is the result of no annoyance?
