Maximas vero virtutes jacere omnes necesse est, voluptate dominante.
"It is truly unavoidable that all virtues lie prostrate, if pleasure is master."
— Cicero, De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum, Lib. II, xxxv.117
A sad meditation on the damage that befalls all kinds of virtue, both public and private, when self-indulgence becomes dominant.
"It is truly unavoidable that all virtues lie prostrate, if pleasure is master."
— Cicero, De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum, Lib. II, xxxv.117
A sad meditation on the damage that befalls all kinds of virtue, both public and private, when self-indulgence becomes dominant.