Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason. — 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
It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves. — 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
Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues. [Lat., Gratus animus est una… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist. — 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 virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. — 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