"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
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Sunshine and rainy weather go hand in hand together all your life
И так далее...
Ты мне, кстати, так и не ответил насчет поснимать.
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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 untrammelled and when nothing prevents our
being able to do what we like best, every pleasure is to be
welcomed and every pain avoided. But in certain circumstances
and owing to the claims of duty or the obligations of business
it will frequently occur that pleasures have to be repudiated
and annoyances accepted. The wise man therefore always holds
in these matters to this principle of selection: he rejects
pleasures to secure other greater pleasures, or else he
endures pains to avoid worse pains
(c) cicero
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