How all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the mas- ter-builder of human happiness one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure.

Denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human one work rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself.

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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 encounter consequences that are extremely painful.

Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, pain can procure him some great pleasure take a trivial example.