ABSTRACT
Virtue is something lofty, elevated and regal, invincible and indefatigable; Pleasure is something lowly and servile, feeble and perishable, which has its base and residence in the brothels and drinking houses. Virtue you will meet in the temple, the forum and the senate house, standing before the walls, stained with dust, with callused hands; Pleasure you will find lurking and hanging around in the shadows, round the baths and saunas and places that fear the aedile, soft and gutless, soaked in liquor and perfume, pale and plastered with the make-up and medicaments of the funeral parlour. 1
