Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Thank You, Thanksgiving

• Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Imagination, Virtue, Difficult

• Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Eye, Light

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pierre-Joseph Thoulier Olivet, Alexander WISHART (1750). “Thoughts of Cicero, on the following subjects, viz. I. Religion, II. Man ... XII. Miscellaneous thoughts. Published in Latin and French by the Abbé d'Olivet; to which is now added, an English translation, with notes. [By Alexander Wishart.]”, p.73

• Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Justice, Virtue, Glory

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.3069, Delphi Classics

• It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Selfishness, Virtue, Difficult

• Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Philosophical, Mind, Virtue

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.1671, Delphi Classics

• Virtue is its own reward.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Inspire

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1812). “Cicero's five books De finibus: or, Concerning the last object of desire and aversion”, p.97

• Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Shadow, Virtue

  "Tusculanarum Disputationum". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book I, Chapter 45), translated, 45 BC.

• A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all the other virtues.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Thank You, Thanksgiving, Thankful

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt,Oratio Pro Cnæo Plancio, XXXIII, p. 336-37, 1922.

• Frugality includes all the other virtues.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Money, Wealth, Virtue

• Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Friendship, Vices, Favors

• A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.
  [Lat., Gratus animus est una virtus non solum maxima, sed etiam mater virtutum onmium reliquarum.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Gratitude, Heart, Parent

  "Oratio Pro Cnæo Plancio", XXXIII, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 336-37,

• The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Life, Men, Doe

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1857). “Cicero's Three Books of Offices: Or Moral Duties; Also His Cato Major ... Laelius ... Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate. Literally Tr., with Notes ...”, p.311

• The best Armour of Old Age is a well spent life preceding it; a Life employed in the Pursuit of useful Knowledge, in honourable Actions and the Practice of Virtue; in which he who labours to improve himself from his Youth, will in Age reap the happiest Fruits of them; not only because these never leave a Man, not even in the extremest Old Age; but because a Conscience bearing Witness that our Life was well-spent, together with the Remembrance of past good Actions, yields an unspeakable Comfort to the Soul

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Past, Men, Yield

• Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Truth, Lying, Honor

• It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty by pleasure as its recompense.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Virtue, Imitation, Pleasure

• It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Friendship, Real, Virtue

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pliny (2010). “Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero with His Treatises on Friendship and Old Age: Letters of Pliny the Younger”, p.42, Cosimo, Inc.

• It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Real, Virtue, Possibility

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1884). “Cicero de Amicitia (on Friendship) and Scipio's Dream”

• It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Art, Great Inspirational, Virtue

• Courage is virtue which champions the cause of right.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Army, Champion, Causes

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.3082, Delphi Classics

• A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Heart, Thankfulness, Greatest Love

• I know that it is likely that as worship of the gods declines, faith between men and all human society will disappear, as well as that most excellent of all virtues, which is justice.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Wisdom, Men, Justice

• Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Wish, Virtue, Seems

  "Laelius On Friendship". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44 BC.

• We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Life, Truth, Taken

• Honor is the reward of virtue.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Philosophical, Honor, Rewards

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, George Barnes, Edward Jones (1860). “Cicero on Oratory and Orators”, p.349

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