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On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire, that they cannot foresee the pain troube that are bound to ensue; and equal blame belongs to those who fail in their duty through weakness of willwhich is the same as saying through shrinking from toil and pain. These cases are perfectly simple and easy to guish. In a free hour, when our power of choice is untrammelled and when nothing prevents our being able to dwhat we like best, every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided. But in certain circumstances and owing to the claims of duty or the obligations of business it will frequently occur that pleasures have to be repudiated and annoyances accepted. The wise man therefore always holds in these matters to this principle of selection: he rejects pleasures to secure other greater pleasures,

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, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the 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 rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain,

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

Christine Rios

On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demized by the charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire, that they cannot foresee the pain troube that are bound to ensue; and equal blame belongs to those who fail in their duty through weakness of willwhich ithe same as saying through shrinking from toil and pain.