Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
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
It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty… — 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
Each part of life has its own pleasures. Each has its own abundant harvest, to be garnered in season. We may grow… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
A man would have no pleasures in discovering all the beauties of the universe, even in heaven itself, unless he had a… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
If a man could mount to Heaven and survey the mighty universe, his admiration of its beauties would be much diminished unless… — 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
These studies are a spur to the young, a delight to the old: an ornament in prosperity, a consoling refuge in adversity;… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Old age has been charged with being insensible to pleasure and to enjoyments arising from the gratification of the senses, a most… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo, because foreseeing his happiness in death, he dies with singing and pleasure. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain. — 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
We rejoice in the joys of our friends as much as we do our own, and we are equally grieved at their… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I look upon the pleasure we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of pleasure and… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Some men make a womanish complaint that it is a great misfortune to die before our time. I would ask what time?… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. .… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures. — 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
