"Pleasure is only the negation of pain, and pain is the positive element in life."

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Introduction & Section 1 of Counsels and Maxims (1851)

0:00 Introduction
3:00 Not Pleasure but Freedom from Pain
11:18 Life is Hell
16:01 Rule = Avoid Pain
23:45 Hypocrisy of the World
28:45 End

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Music: Among the Clouds, by Darren Curtis

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