The Importance of Water and Drinking Lots Of It

 The pain will be great, the weight loss will be followed, but at the same time it will happen that there is a great deal of work and pain. For to come to the smallest detail, no one should practice any kind of work unless he derives some benefit from it. Do not be angry with the pain in the reprimand in the pleasure he wants to be a hair from the pain in the hope that there is no breeding. Unless they are blinded by lust, they do not come forth; they are in fault who abandon their duties and soften their hearts, that is, their labors.

But in order that you may see whence all this born error of those who accuse pleasure and praise pain, I will open the whole matter, and explain the very things which were said by that discoverer of truth and as it were the architect of a happy life. For no one despises or hates or runs away from pleasure because it is pleasure, but because great pains result to those who do not know how to follow pleasure with reason.

“Those who do not know how to follow pleasure with reason suffer pain. Nor is there anyone who loves pain because it is pain, pursues it, wants to gain it, but because such times never occur when he seeks some great pleasure through labor and pain. For to come to the smallest detail, which one of us undertakes any physical exercise that is laborious, except in order to derive some benefit from it? But who can rightfully criticize him who wants to be in that pleasure which results in no discomfort, or he who avoids that pain in which no pleasure is produced?

But indeed we both accuse and with just hatred bring those who deserve it who are softened and corrupted by the flattery of present pleasures, who are blinded by lust for the pains and troubles they are about to experience, and do not provide for them. And indeed the distinction between these things is easy and expedient.

For in free time, when we are free to choose and nothing prevents us from doing what pleases us the most, all pleasure must be assumed, all pain rejected. But at certain times, and either due to duties or the necessities of things, it will often happen that both pleasures are to be rejected and troubles are not to be rejected. And so these things must be chosen by a wise man, so that either by rejecting greater pleasures he may obtain others, or by enduring pains he may repulse them.

And I will explain those very things which were said by that discoverer of truth and, as it were, the architect of a happy life. For no one despises or hates or runs away from pleasure because it is pleasure, but because great pains result to those who do not know how to follow pleasure with reason.

Nor, moreover, is there any one who, because he loves pain, pursues it, wants to gain it, but because such times never occur when he seeks some great pleasure through labor and pain. For to come to the smallest detail, which one of us undertakes any physical exercise that is laborious, except in order to derive some benefit from it? But who can rightfully criticize him who wants to be in that pleasure which results in no discomfort, or he who avoids that pain in which no pleasure is produced?

For no one despises or hates or runs away from pleasure because it is pleasure, but because it results in great things.