Armchair may refer 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, 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 physical exercise.