There are many variations of passages of Samet Aldus available, but the majority have suffered alteration in some form, by injected humour. 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.

No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because 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.