


But in order that you may see whence all this born error is the pleasure of those who accuse and praise the pain, I will open the whole matter, and explain the 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 a total pleasure, but because great pains result to those who do not know how to follow pleasure with reason.
But who can rightly blame him who wants to be in that pleasure which results in no discomfort, or he who avoids pain so that no pleasure is produced?