Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• A man would have no pleasures in discovering all the beauties of the universe, even in heaven itself, unless he had a partner to whom he might communicate his joys.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Joy, Heaven

• If a man could mount to Heaven and survey the mighty universe, his admiration of its beauties would be much diminished unless he had someone to share in his pleasure.

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  Loyalty, Men, Heaven

• In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Pleasure, Pleasures Of Life, Satiety

  "De Oratore (On the Orator)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book III, Chapter 25), 55 BC.

• I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. . . It gives us a great insight into the contrivance and wisdom of Nature, and suggests innumerable subjects for meditation.

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  Garden, Giving, Meditation

• The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

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  Philosophical, Pleasure, Disgusting

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Harris Rackham (1977). “De Oratore: Book III”

• It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty by pleasure as its recompense.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Virtue, Imitation, Pleasure

• I look upon the pleasure we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life.

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  Garden, Looks, Delight

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1855). “Cicero's Three books of offices, or moral duties: also his Cato Major, an essay on old age; Lælius, an essay on friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's dream; and Letter to Quintus on the duties of a magistrate”, p.241

• No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Pain, Thinking, Men

  "De Officiis (On Duties)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book I, Chapter 2), 44 BC.

• Each part of life has its own pleasures. Each has its own abundant harvest, to be garnered in season. We may grow old in body, but we need never grow old in mind and spirit. No one is as old as to think he or she cannot live one more year.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Thinking, Years, Mind

  On Old Age VII.24

• Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

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  Time, Age, Youth

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Cyrus R. Edmonds (1863). “Three Books of Offices; Or, Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on Old Age; Laelius, an Essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate. Literally Translated, with Notes, Designed to Exhibit a Comparative View of the Opinions of Cicero, and Those of Modern Moralists and Ethical Philosophers”, p.245

• These studies are a spur to the young, a delight to the old: an ornament in prosperity, a consoling refuge in adversity; they are pleasure for us at home, and no burden abroad; they stay up with us at night, they accompany us when we travel, they are with us in our country visits.

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  Country, Adversity, Home

• We rejoice in the joys of our friends as much as we do our own, and we are equally grieved at their sorrows. Wherefore the wise people will feel toward their friends as they do toward themselves, and whatever labor they would encounter with a view to their own pleasure, they will encounter also for the sake of their friends.

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  Friendship, Wise, Views

• If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

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  Evil, Passing Away, Making A Difference

• If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Errors, Giving

  Cicero, Marcus Tullius Cicero, William Armistead Falconer (1923). “Cicero in twenty-nine volumes”

• We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.

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  Suffering, Remember, Forget

• Some men make a womanish complaint that it is a great misfortune to die before our time. I would ask what time? Is it that of Nature? But she, indeed, has lent us life, as we do a sum of money, only no certain day is fixed for payment. What reason then to complain if she demands it at pleasure, since it was on this condition that you received it.

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  Death, Men, Demand

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1922.

• No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest god.
  [Lat., Fortis vero, dolorem summum malum judicans; aut temperans, voluptatem summum bonum statuens, esse certe nullo modo potest.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Pain, Men, Thinking

  "De Officiis". Treatise by Marcus Tullius Cicero, I. 2, 44 B.C..

• That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue.
  [Lat., Nam quae voluptate, quasi mercede aliqua, ad officium impellitur, ea non est virtus sed fallax imitatio simulatioque virtutis.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Offering, Rewards, Virtue

• The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo, because foreseeing his happiness in death, he dies with singing and pleasure.

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  Swans, Singing, Apollo

  "Tusculanarum Disputationum", I. 30, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 772-73,

• What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.

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  Pain, Absence, Pleasure

• In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of pleasure and thence fall into immorality.

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  Fall, May, Limits

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 600-02, De Officiis (44 B.C.), I. 29, 1922.

• There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.

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  War, Past, Remembrance

• Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.

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  Plato, Men, Sea

  "De Senectute", XIII. 44, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 600-02,

• Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Eye, Mind, Fellowship

  "De Senectute", XII, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 600-02,

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