No man can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil of life; nor temperate, who considers pleasure to be the highest good.
No man can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil of life; nor temperate, who considers pleasure to be the highest good.
- Source
- Dictionary of Quotations (1893)
Printed citation: Cic. · page_303
Read the original context ↗ - Attribution confidence
- attributed · historical anthology
Preserved as printed; independently unverified. - Historical coordinate
- Undated
No reliable date supplied by the collection. - Rights & edition
- Public domain (United States)
Translations and rights may differ elsewhere.
Provenance and licences ↗
Word-matched topics
The voice behind the words.
Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.
More from Cicero ↗