Our annual reunion was a success this year - thank you to all who made it!

"But in order to understand whence all this error was born, I will open the whole thing to the pleasure of accusing and praising the pain, and I will explain those things which have been said by that inventor of the truth and, as it were, the architect of the blessed life. Great pains result from those who do not know how pleasure follows reason: nor is there any one who desires to obtain pleasure because pain itself is pain itself, enhanced, but because times of such a nature do not occur, so that by toil and pain he may seek some great pleasure. "Who of us undertakes any laborious exercise of the body, except to obtain some advantage from it?"

"But in order to understand whence all this error was born, I will open the whole thing to the pleasure of accusing and praising the pain, and I will explain those things which have been said by that inventor of the truth and, as it were, the architect of the blessed life. Great pains result from those who do not know how pleasure follows reason: nor is there any one who desires to obtain pleasure because pain itself is pain itself, enhanced, but because times of such a nature do not occur, so that by toil and pain he may seek some great pleasure. Who of us undertakes any laborious physical exercise, except that we may obtain some advantage from it?