Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
How great an evil do you see that may have been announced by you against the Republic? - Videtis quantum scelus contra… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Inability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of man's life. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest god. [Lat., Fortis vero,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Of evils one should choose the least. [Lat., Ex malis eligere minima oportere.] — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude.… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Every evil in the bud is easily crushed: as it grows older, it becomes stronger. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Ignorance of impending evil is far better than a knowledge of its approach. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Laughing, laughing, laughing, laughing! It is the jester! A voice from the Void, to cheer poor Cicero! I accept your gift, dearest Night Mother.… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education never first;… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Things sacred should not only be touched with the hands, but unviolated in thought. [Lat., Res sacros non modo manibus attingi, sed ne cogitatione… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Friendship embraces innumerable ends; turn where you will it is ever at your side; no barrier shuts it out; it is never untimely and… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image