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Virtue Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
- Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
- Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
- Honor is the reward of virtue.
- 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…
- Frugality includes all the other virtues.
- It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.
- Courage is virtue which champions the cause of right.
- Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues.
- It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist.
- 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…
- It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced.
- 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…
- Virtue is its own reward.
- A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.
- 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…
- 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.
- It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty by pleasure as…
- 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…
- Many wish not so much to be virtuous, as to seem to be.
- The existence of virtue depends entirely upon its use.
- The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues.
- Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it.
- 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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