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33. We have still left our fourth division, 1
comprising propriety, moderation, temperance, selfrestraint, self-control.
Can anything be expedient, then, which is contrary to such a chorus of virtues? And yet the
Cyrenaics, adherents of the school of Aristippus,
and the philosophers who bear the name of Anniceris find all good to consist in pleasure and consider
virtue praiseworthy only because it is productive of
pleasure. Now that these schools are out of date,
Epicurus has come into vogue—an advocate and
supporter of practically the same doctrine. Against
such a philosophy we must fight it out “with horse
and foot,” as the saying is, if our purpose is to
defend and maintain our standard of moral rectitude.
1 Apparent Expediency vs. Temperance.
M. Tullius Cicero. De Officiis. With An English Translation. Walter Miller. Cambridge. Harvard University Press; Cambridge, Mass., London, England. 1913.
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