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“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.
Section 98
See also Esse quam videri
Source: Laelius De Amicitia – Laelius On Friendship (44 BC)

“When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.”
Source: A Farewell to Arms

“Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.”
Qui stultis videri eruditi volunt stulti eruditis videntur.
Book X, Chapter VII, 21
See also: An X among Ys, a Y among Xs
De Institutione Oratoria (c. 95 AD)

“And you wish to be a poet; and you wish to be a lover.”
Source: The Waves

“You should never wish for wishful thinking.”
Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares