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.
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.
To find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences
or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure?
Nor again is there anyone who loves
But who has any right