Cicero - Virtue Quotes

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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

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It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.

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Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

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Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.

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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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Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

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Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion to vice.

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In truth, O judges, while I wish to be adorned with every virtue, yet there is nothing which I can esteem more highly than being and appearing grateful. For this one virtue is not only the greatest, but is also the parent of all the other virtues.

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Where pleasure prevails, all the greatest virtues will lose their power.

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If nature does not ratify law, then all the virtues may lose their sway.

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No one dies too soon who has finished the course of perfect virtue.

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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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Every generous action loves the public view; yet no theatre for virtue is equal to a consciousness of it.

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Virtue is uniform, conformable to reason, and of unvarying consistency; nothing can be added to it that can make it more than virtue; nothing can be taken from it, and the name of virtue be left.

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