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Cicero says against Epicurus that there is clear evidence his teachings lack subtlety: people of every sort everywhere declare that they like them (Cicero, Tusculan Disputations 4.7).These people, perversely as in everything else, treat that as evidence of wisdom.
Quodque ait, in Epicurum Tullius, manifesto argumento non dici illa subtiliter, quod cuiuscemodi homines passim sibi ea profitentur placere [n4] . Id isti, sicut omnia, more perverso, ad sapientiae putant testimonium pertinere.