Clare Smyth

We now find pain in the voluptuous, we want to be happy Nor is there anyone who loves, pursues, or seeks pain itself because it is pain, but because times of that kind often occur that he seeks some great pleasure through labor and pain. For to be fair to the smallest, who among us undertakes any laborious exercise of the body, unless to obtain some benefit from it? But who would rightly blame either him who wishes to be in that pleasure which results in no discomfort, or him who avoids that pain from which no pleasure is produced?