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• The good of the people is the highest law.
  -- Marcus Tullius Cicero "De Legibus" (106-43 BCE)...
• An evil, at its birth, is easily crushed, but it grows and strengthens by endurance.
  -- Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.)...
• Our character (mores) is not so much the product of race and heredity, as of circumstances by which nature forms habits, by which we are nourished and live.
  Marcus Tullius Cicero "De Lege Agraria" (106-43 BCE)...
• An unjust peace is better than a just war.
  -- Marcus Tullius Cicero "Epistola ad Atticum" (106-43 BCE)...
• Virtue is its own reward. -- Phyllis Schlafly
• Virtue is its own reward, but then so is sin!
• The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted to the love of glory.
  -- Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.)...
• Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures.
  -- Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.)...
• Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
  -- Sir John Vanbrugh, The Relapse...