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22 lines
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But I must explain to you how all number of this mistaken idea of
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denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you
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a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings
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of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human
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happiness.
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No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is
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pleasure, but because those who do not know how one-hundred-thirty
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pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are
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extremely painful.
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Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to open
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pain of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally
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circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some
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great pleasure.
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The trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious
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physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it?
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But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses box to
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enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who
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avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure? On the other
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hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who
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are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the
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moment, so blinded by desire, that they cannot foresee.
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