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.
Which is the same as saying through shrinking from toil and pain. These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish.
Discover all featuresWhen nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best.
In a free hour, when our power of choice is untrammelled.
The wise man therefore always holds in these matters to this.
He rejects pleasures to secure other greater pleasures.
Else he endures pains to avoid worse pains accepted.
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At vero eos et accusamus et iusto odio dignissimos ducimus qui blanditiis praesentium voluptatum deleniti atque corrupti quos dolores et quas molestias excepturi sint occaecati.
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