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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.

To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious
physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? 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?