A Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero
How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising glory.
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In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.
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Look not at what is contrary to propriety; listen not to what is contrary to propriety; speak not what is contrary to propriety; make no movement which is contrary to propriety.
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The contempt of riches in philosophers was only a hidden desire to avenge their merit upon the injustice of fortune, by despising the very goods of which fortune had deprived them; it was a secret to guard themselves against the degradation of poverty, it was a back way by which to arrive at that distinction which they could not gain by riches.
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