

For no one despises or hates or flees from pleasure because it is pleasure, but because great pains follow those who do not know how to follow pleasure by reason. Nor, moreover, is there any one who wants to attain pain, because it is pain itself, but because it is not pain.
But in order that you may see whence all this born error is, the pleasure of those who accuse and the pain of those who praise, I will open the whole matter, and those very things which were from that discoverer of truth