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Michael Moorcock book The War Hound and the World's Pain
Source: The War Hound and the World's Pain (1981), Chapter 2 (p. 27)
“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.
Marcus Tullius Cicero book Laelius de Amicitia
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.”
Ernest Hemingway book A Farewell to Arms
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.
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)
“And you wish to be a poet; and you wish to be a lover.”
Virginia Woolf book The Waves
Source: The Waves
“You should never wish for wishful thinking.”
Rachel Cohn (1968) American writer
Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
