BY THEME
On Virtue
On the good, on character, and on moral excellence as the only true wealth.
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Virtue is a disposition of the ruling principle consistent with itself throughout the whole of life.
Fragment, in Diogenes Laertius 7.89
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He who loves himself, loves all.
Fragment, in Stobaeus
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To live well is to live consistently.
Fragment, in Diogenes Laertius 7.88
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Man is born to serve in his turn those to whom he owes his being.
Fragment, in Cicero On Duties 1.22
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Happiness is a good flow of life.
Fragment, in Stobaeus 2.77
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All the good are friends of one another.
Fragment, in Diogenes Laertius 7.124
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Love is a god, co-operating in securing the safety of the city.
Fragment, in Athenaeus 13
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If one wants to live a life of worth, he must live virtuously.
Fragment, in Stobaeus 2.76
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I had rather be good than seem so.
via Plutarch, Life of Cato the Younger 1
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The Senate will never lead while Cato sits in it.
via Plutarch, Life of Cato the Younger 19