Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes About Virtue
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A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all the other virtues.
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There is no quality I would rather have, and be thought to have, than gratitude. For it is not only the greatest virtue, but is the mother of all the rest.
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Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination.
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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
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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.
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Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.
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It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of dignity.
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It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced.
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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.
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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
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While all other things are uncertain, evanescent, and ephemeral, virtue alone is fixed with deep roots; it can neither be overthrown by any violence or moved from its place.
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There is a certain virtue in every good man, which night and day stirs up the mind with the stimulus of glory, and reminds it that all mention of our name will not cease at the same time with our lives, but that our fame will endure to all posterity.
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In the approach to virtue there are many steps.
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The man who is always fortunate cannot easily have a great reverence for virtue.
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The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious.
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Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.
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What fervent love of herself would Virtue excite if she could be seen!
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Courage is virtue which champions the cause of right.
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The whole glory of virtue resides in activity.
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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.
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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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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.
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Saving the virtues includes all other advantages
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It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist.
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If nature does not ratify law, then all the virtues may lose their sway.
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Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue.
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O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee? Thou hast produced cities; thou hast called men scattered about into the social enjoyment of life. [Lat., O vitae philosophia dux! O virtutis indagatrix, expultrixque vitiorum! Quid non modo nos, sed omnino vita hominum sine et esse potuisset? Tu urbes peperisti; tu dissipatos homines in societatum vitae convocasti.]
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The great theatre for virtue is conscience.
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Virtue is increased by the smile of approval; and the love of renown is the greatest incentive to honourable acts.
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The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues.
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