• Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.

    Marcus Tullius Cicero: Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.
    "De Senectute", XIII. 44, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 600-02,