There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
It was fear that was then making you a good citizen, which is never a lasting teacher of duty. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
To reduce man to the duties of his own city, and to disengage him from duties to the members of other cities,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The first duty of man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
This is our special duty, that if anyone specially needs our help, we should give him such help to the utmost of… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
For while we are enclosed in these confinements of the body, we perform as a kind of duty the heavy task of… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
True law is right reason in agreement with nature;...it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions...… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be discharged. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
There is no duty more indispensible than that of returning a kindness. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
No phase of life, whether public or private, can be free from duty. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
No one has lived a short life who has performed its duties with unblemished character. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Laughing, laughing, laughing, laughing! It is the jester! A voice from the Void, to cheer poor Cicero! I accept your gift, dearest Night Mother.… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education never first;… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Things sacred should not only be touched with the hands, but unviolated in thought. [Lat., Res sacros non modo manibus attingi, sed ne cogitatione… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Friendship embraces innumerable ends; turn where you will it is ever at your side; no barrier shuts it out; it is never untimely and… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
