But that you may see from whence all this error is born of those who accuse pleasure and praise pain, I will open the whole matter, and I will explain those very things which were said by that discoverer of truth and, as it were, the architect of a happy life. For no one despises or hates or runs away from pleasure itself because it is pleasure, but because great sorrows result to those who do not know how to follow pleasure with reason.

Nor is there anyone else, who loves pain because it is pain, will be followed, he wants to get, but because there are never such times