Marcus Tullius Cicero Pleasure Quotations

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

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

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.

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Old age has been charged with being insensible to pleasure and to enjoyments arising from the gratification of the senses, a most blessed and heavenly effect, truly, if it eases us of what in youth was the sorest plague of life

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