Virtue is uniform, conformable to reason, and of unvarying consistency; nothing can be added to it that can make it more than… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
There is a certain virtue in every good man, which night and day stirs up the mind with the stimulus of glory,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I know that it is likely that as worship of the gods declines, faith between men and all human society will disappear,… — 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
The man who is always fortunate cannot easily have a great reverence for virtue. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Virtue is increased by the smile of approval; and the love of renown is the greatest incentive to honourable acts. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
What fervent love of herself would Virtue excite if she could be seen! — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
No one dies too soon who has finished the course of perfect virtue. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
While all other things are uncertain, evanescent, and ephemeral, virtue alone is fixed with deep roots; it can neither be overthrown by… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
If nature does not ratify law, then all the virtues may lose their sway. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed… — 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
