Marcus Tullius Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicerowas a Roman philosopher, politician, lawyer, orator, political theorist, consul, and constitutionalist. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the Roman equestrian order, and was one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists...
NationalityRoman
ProfessionStatesman
gratitude greatest heart parent thankful virtues
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues
approval incentives virtue
Virtue is increased by the smile of approval; and the love of renown is the greatest incentive to honourable acts.
heart heartache virtue
A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.
inspiring rewards virtue
Virtue is its own reward.
art great-inspirational virtue
It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced.
real virtue possibility
It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist.
real virtue harmony
It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.
money virtue frugality
Frugality includes all the other virtues.
wish virtue seems
Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.
philosophical mind virtue
Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
saving virtue advantage
Saving the virtues includes all other advantages
race virtue guides
There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue.
offering rewards virtue
That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue. [Lat., Nam quae voluptate, quasi mercede aliqua, ad officium impellitur, ea non est virtus sed fallax imitatio simulatioque virtutis.]
practice virtue whole
The whole of virtue consists in its practice.