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.
nadie rechaza, no le gusta, o evita el placer mismo, porque es placer, 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.
Para tomar un ejemplo trivial, ¿Quién de nosotros realiza alguna vez ejercicio físico laborioso?, excepto para obtener alguna ventaja de ello? 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? Por otra parte, 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
