Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes, Wish Quotes, Virtue Quotes

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

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It is He who gave to this intellectual nature free-will of such a kind, that if he wishes to forsake God his blessedness, misery should forthwith result.

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Whatever the reason you're on Mars, I'm glad you're there, and I wish I was with you.

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Be always displeased with what you are if you wish to be what you are not. Always add, always walk, always proceed. Neither stand still nor go back nor deviate.

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Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.

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We all wish to be of importance in one way or another. The child coughs with might and main, since it has no other claim on the company.

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I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness ... Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy.

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When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.

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In inventing a model we may assume what we wish, but should avoid impossibilities.

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Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be, but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea.

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He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.

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I wish I had died before I ever loved anyone but her.

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I wish they weren't called the 'Bush tax cuts.' If they're called some other body's tax cuts, they're probably less likely to be raised.

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People are only influenced in the direction in which they want to go, and influence consists largely in making them conscious of their wishes to proceed in that direction.

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A gentleman wishes to be slow to speak and quick to act.

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You wish to put me in the dark. I tell you that I will never be put in the dark. You wish to beat me. I tell you that you will never beat me.

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aim, n. The task we set our wishes to.

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Quos vilt perdere dementat' Whome the gods wish to destroy, they first drive made (Latin).

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'O Tiger-lily,' said Alice... 'I wish you could talk!' 'We can talk,' said the Tiger-lily: 'when there's anybody worth talking to."

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I would not wish any companion in the world but you.

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