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Wish Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero
- What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.
- If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure…
- He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.
- A careful physician . . . before he attempts to administer a remedy to his patient, must investigate not only the malady of the man…
- If you wish to persuade me, you must think my thoughts, feel my feelings, and speak my words.
- He is rich who wishes no more than he has.
- Many wish not so much to be virtuous, as to seem to be.
- There is no more sure tie between friends than when they are united in their objects and wishes.
- Nulla (enim) res tantum ad dicendum proficit, quantum scriptio Nothing so much assists learning as writing down what we wish to remember.
- Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it.
- When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every…
- Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.
- If I err in my belief that the souls of men are immortal, I err gladly, and do not wish to lose so delightful an…
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- I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored. — David Attenborough
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- Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first… — Saint Augustine
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- Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. — Saint Augustine
- Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it. — Marcus Aurelius