Finibus Bonorum et Malorum

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 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

• Nam libero tempore, cum soluta nobis est eligendi optio cumque nihil impedit quo minus id quod maxime placeat facere possimus, omnis voluptas assumenda
• In a free hour, when our power of choice is untrammelled and when nothing prevents
• Every pain avoided. But in certain circumstances and owing to the claims of duty
• To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise
• These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish. In a free hour