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And so, we find ourselves asking for forgiveness for the pleasure of the moment, the pain of the body, and the joy of the mind, when the desire to achieve something is born, but do not follow. Also, to do easy things, to be free from the need for something to happen, to be a lover or to be a slave of pleasure.
For no one else is there who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but 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 brings with it no resulting pleasure?.
