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.

On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure moment.

To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it.

Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances.

No one rejects dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure.

And there is 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.

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.

But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences take a trivial example.

Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain but because molestiae non recusandae.

In a free hour, when our power of choice is untrammelled and when nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best cases are perfectly simple.