“The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues.”
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Famous Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
“Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it.”
“Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue.”
“If nature does not ratify law, then all the virtues may lose their sway.”
Source: The Treatises of M.T. Cicero: On the Nature of the Gods; On Divination; On Fate; On the Republic; On the Laws; and On Standing for the Consulship
“Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.”
Source: Select Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero
“It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves.”
“The man who is always fortunate cannot easily have a great reverence for virtue.”
“What fervent love of herself would Virtue excite if she could be seen!”
Source: Tusculan Disputations: On the Nature of Gods, and the Commonwealth
“No one dies too soon who has finished the course of perfect virtue.”
Source: Tusculan Disputations: On the Nature of Gods, and the Commonwealth
Source: Three Books of Offices ; Or, Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on Old Age; Laelius, an Essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate. Literally Translated, with Notes, Designed to Exhibit a Comparative View of the Opinions of Cicero, and Those of Modern Moralists and Ethical Philosophers
“There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue.”
“A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all the other virtues.”
“Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.”
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.”
“Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)
Source: Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero with His Treatises on Friendship and Old Age: Letters of Pliny the Younger
“Courage is virtue which champions the cause of right.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)
“Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)
“Honor is the reward of virtue.”
Source: Cicero on Oratory and Orators
Source: 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.”
Source: Cicero's five books De finibus: or, Concerning the last object of desire and aversion
Source: 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.]
“Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.”
“The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious.”
Source: 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 ...
“For many wish not so much to be, as to seem to be, endowed with real virtue.”