Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
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  1. Those who have wisdom have all: Fools with all have nothing. - Thiruvalluvar

  2. May I never, I say, become that abnormal, merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity - a virtuous woman. - Mary MacLane

  3. I see your point. It irks you to see anyone at all who is able to work permitted to live without working. But why do you consider work a virtue? - Robert A. Heinlein

  4. Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered. - John Locke

  5. Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. - George Washington

More Quotes By Marcus Tullius Cicero
  1. While there's life, there's hope.

  2. The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

  3. It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

  4. Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

  5. To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.

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