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Damit Ihr indess erkennt, woher dieser ganze Irrthum gekommen ist, und weshalb man die Lust anklagt und den Schmerz lobet, so will ich Euch Alles eröffnen und auseinander setzen, was jener Begründer der Wahrheit und gleichsam Baumeister des glücklichen Lebens selbst darüber gesagt hat. Niemand, sagt er, verschmähe, oder hasse, oder fliehe die Lust als solche, sondern weil grosse Schmerzen ihr folgen, wenn man nicht mit Vernunft ihr nachzugehen verstehe. Ebenso werde der
On the other hand, 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 the pain and trouble that are bound to ensue; and equal blame belongs to those who fail in their duty through weakness of will, which is the same as saying through shrinking from toil and pain. These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish. In a free hour, when our power of choice is
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. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. Nor again is there anyone who
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