Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to pain of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses.
Must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a completed great of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness except to obtain some advantage.