But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was bornand I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the greatexplorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasureitself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationallyencounter consequences that are extremely painful. Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues ordesires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain