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"Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way."

"It is better to be a discipline than a follower."

"They say, love God, for it is the greatest virtue. I say, love humans, for there is no greater virtue, no greater religion, than the love of humanity."

"Wisdom lies at the edge of intelligence. Joy lies at the edge of happiness. Faith lies at the edge of boldness. Love lies at the edge of kindness. God lies at the edge of righteousness."

"So our virtuesLie in the interpretation of the time:And power, unto itself most commendable,Hath not a tomb so evident as a chairTo extol what it hath done.One fire drives out one fire; one nail, one nail;Rights by rights falter, strengths by strengths do fail."

"Three quarters of faith is boldness. Three quarters of wisdom is intelligence. Three quarters of love is kindness."

"I almost wish I hadn't any conscience; its so inconvenient. If I didn't care about doing right and didn't feel uncomfortable when doing wrong, I should get on capitally. I can't help wishing sometimes that Father and Mother hadn't been so particular about such things. Ah Joe, instead of wishing that, thank God that Father and Mother were particular and pity from your heart those who have no such guardians to hedge them round with principles that may seem like prison walls to impatient youth, but which will prove sure foundations to build character upon in womanhood."

"We've all started to put down the virtues of the other factions in the process of bolstering our own. I don't want to do that. I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest." He clears his throat. "I continually struggle with kindness."
Explore more quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

"There are no snares more dangerous than those which lurk under the guise of duty or the name of relationship."

"Any man may make a mistake none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says."

"But if I am wrong in thinking the human soul immortal, I am glad to be wrong; nor will I allow the mistake which gives me so much pleasure to be wrested from me as long as I live."

"Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things human and divine conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection."
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