Cala 51 - Villa With sea View

"But so that you may understand where all this error originates—those who condemn pleasure and those who praise pain—I will lay bare the whole matter and explain those very things that were spoken by the inventor of truth and, as it were, the architect of the blessed life. For no one would ever endure, hate, or flee from pleasure itself simply because it is pleasure, but rather because great pains follow those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally. Nor is there anyone who, because pain is pain, would willingly seek it out; rather, it is because there are times when, through toil and pain, one seeks some great pleasure. For, to put it mildly, who among us would willingly undergo the laborious exercise of the body unless it were to yield some benefit? But who would justly reproach anyone who seeks to be in that pleasure, from which nothing troublesome results, or anyone who flees from pain because no pleasure is to be found in it?"