Instead let Virtue herself, by her own unaided allurements, summon you to a glory that is genuine and real.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROFew are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.
More Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
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The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.
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Dogs wait for us faithfully.
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The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
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Nothing cruel is in fact beneficial; for cruelty is extremely hostile to the nature of man, which we ought to follow.
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It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.
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Law applied to its extreme is the greatest injustice.
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To make a mistake is only human; to persist in a mistake is idiotic.
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Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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Never injure a friend, even in jest.
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Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
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Freedom will bite back more fiercely when suspended than when she remains undisturbed.
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Is not prosperity robbed of half its value if you have no one to share your joy?
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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
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What is sweeter than lettered ease?
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Endless money forms the sinews of war.
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