“Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.”
Section 98
See also Esse quam videri
Source: Laelius De Amicitia – Laelius On Friendship (44 BC)
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Marcus Tullius Cicero180
Roman philosopher and statesman -106–-43 BCRelated quotes
Sun Myung Moon (1920–2012) Korean religious leader
The Way of God's Will Chapter 1-8. Kingdom of Heaven http://www.unification.org/ucbooks/WofGW/wogw1-08.htm Translated 1980.
“Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.”
Qui stultis videri eruditi volunt stulti eruditis videntur.
Quintilian (35–96) ancient Roman rhetor
Book X, Chapter VII, 21
See also: An X among Ys, a Y among Xs
De Institutione Oratoria (c. 95 AD)
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex (1981) American former actress and member by marriage of the British royal family
Source: In a letter to Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi " Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, urges Schumer and Pelosi to pass federal paid family leave https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/21/politics/meghan-duchess-of-sussex-paid-family-leave/index.html" (October 21, 2021)
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
Letter to Ottoline Morrell, 17 December, 1920
1920s
Ibn Hazm (994–1064) Arab theologian
Kitab al-Akhlaq wa’l Siyar ; Trsltd by N. Tomiche under the title: Epitre Morale, Collection UNESCO, Beyrouth, 1961, p. 21.
“People who have no vices, have very few virtues.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
According to The Inner Life of Abraham Lincoln (1867) by F. B. Carpenter, Lincoln quoted this as having been said to him by a fellow-passenger in a stagecoach. See also "Washington during the War", Macmillan's Magazine 6:24 http://books.google.com/books?id=rB4AAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA24&dq=folks (May 1862) <br class="br">Posthumous attributions <br class="br">Variant: It's my experience that folks who have no vices have generally very few virtues.
Jeremy Corbyn (1949) British Labour Party politician
Question http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1985/nov/27/anglo-irish-agreement in the House of Commons (27 November 1985) on the Anglo-Irish Agreement. <br class="br">1980s
“There are few people who are more often wrong than those who cannot suffer being wrong.”
François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
Il n'y a point de gens qui aient plus souvent tort que ceux qui ne peuvent souffrir d'en avoir.
Maxim 386.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)