counter-doctrine

Updated: June 5, 2025

Seize the present, trust to-morrow e'en as little as you may'". Passing on to the second book of the treatise, we hear the advocate of the counter-doctrine. Why, exclaims the Stoic, introduce Pleasure to the councils of Virtue? Why uphold a theory so dangerous in practice?

W. Lucas (William Lucas) Collins - Cicero: Ancient Classics for English Readers