But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will ge you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, theaster-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 agains there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain