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Laelius De Amicitia [Laelius on Friendship], ch. 26 / sec. 98 (44 BC) - Cicero, Marcus Tullius | WIST Quotations
Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so. [Virtute enim ipsa non tam multi praediti esse quam videri volunt.] Common translation. Alternates: "For not so many desire to be endowed with virtue itself, as to seem to be so." [tr. Edmonds (1871)] "For…