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Act Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.
- The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.
- There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.
- It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood.
- No man should so act as to make a gain out of the ignorance of another.
- To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool.
- What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage.…
- For the mere act of thinking a course expedient, when it is morally wrong, is demoralizing.
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