المنستير

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.

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 take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it?