Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes, Offering Quotes, Rewards Quotes

That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue. [Lat., Nam quae voluptate, quasi mercede aliqua, ad officium impellitur, ea non est virtus sed fallax imitatio simulatioque virtutis.]

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Without hope of reward Provide help to others. Bear suffering alone, And share your pleasures with beggars.

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The bourgeois thinkers of the eighteenth century thus turned Aristotle's formula on its head: satisfactions which the Greek philosopher had identified with leisure were now transposed to the sphere of work, while tasks lacking in any financial reward were drained of all significance and left to the haphazard attentions of decadent dilettantes. It now seemed as impossible that one could be happy and unproductive as it had once seemed unlikely that one could work and be human.

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In your judgment virtue requires no reward, and is to be sought for itself, unaccompanied by external benefits. [Lat., Judice te mercede caret, per seque petenda est Externis virtus incomitata bonis.]

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The reward of eternal life requires effort.

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I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.

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Is not labour, like learning, its own reward?

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Happiness is the reward of virtue.

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It is difficult to be patient but to waste the rewards of patience is worse.

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The greater the potential for reward in the value portfolio, the less risk there is.

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Heaven rewards the pious; those who cherish the gods Themselves are cherished.

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No endeavour is in vain; Its reward is in the doing.

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I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that rewards me, God reward him. If I do grow great, I'll grow less; for I'll purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly, as a nobleman should do.

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The problem with fiat money is that it rewards the minority that can handle money, but fools the generation that has worked and saved money.

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If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.

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The final reward of the dead - to die no more

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I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his [sic] creatures, or has a will of the type of which we are conscious ourselves.

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There is sufficient reward in the mere consciousness of a good action.

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