But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system.And expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness.
Hakuna mtu anayekataa, Haipendi, au epuka raha yenyewe, Kwa sababu ni raha, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure.
Kuchukua mfano mdogo, Ni nani kati yetu anayewahi kufanya mazoezi magumu ya mwili, isipokuwa kupata faida kutoka kwake? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure? Kwa upande mwingine, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire, that they cannot foresee
