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Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes about Virtue

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Of all the rewards of virtue, . . . the most splendid is fame, for it is fame alone that can offer us the memory of posterity.

Of all the rewards of virtue, . . . the most splendid is fame, for it is fame alone that can offer us the memory of posterity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Memories, Rewards, Virtue

It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Selfishness, Virtue, Difficult

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Inspirational, Shadow, Virtue

"Tusculanarum Disputationum". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book I, Chapter 45), translated, 45 BC.

It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Art, Great Inspirational, Virtue

The great theatre for virtue is conscience.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Theatre, Virtue, Conscience

It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Real, Virtue, Possibility

Marcus Tullius Cicero (1884). “Cicero de Amicitia (on Friendship) and Scipio's Dream”

Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Imagination, Virtue, Difficult

The whole of virtue consists in its practice.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Practice, Virtue, Whole

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.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Offering, Rewards, Virtue

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Friendship, Real, Virtue

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pliny (2010). “Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero with His Treatises on Friendship and Old Age: Letters of Pliny the Younger”, p.42, Cosimo, Inc.

Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Justice, Virtue, Glory

Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.3069, Delphi Classics

Frugality includes all the other virtues.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Money, Wealth, Virtue

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Perfect, Virtue, Courses

Marcus Tullius Cicero (2005). “Tusculan Disputations: On the Nature of Gods, and the Commonwealth”, p.58, Cosimo, Inc.

The whole glory of virtue resides in activity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Virtue, Glory, Whole

The existence of virtue depends entirely upon its use.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Use, Virtue, Existence

Marcus Tullius Cicero (1970). “Cicero”

What fervent love of herself would Virtue excite if she could be seen!

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Vanity, Virtue, Fervent

Saving the virtues includes all other advantages

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Saving, Virtue, Advantage

Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Believe, Wish, Virtue

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Philosophical, Mind, Virtue

Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.1671, Delphi Classics

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 its recompense.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Virtue, Imitation, Pleasure

In the approach to virtue there are many steps.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Steps, Virtue, Approach

The man who is always fortunate cannot easily have a great reverence for virtue.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Success, Men, Virtue

There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Race, Virtue, Guides

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Wish, Virtue, Seems

"Laelius On Friendship". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44 BC.

For many wish not so much to be, as to seem to be, endowed with real virtue.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Wish, Virtue, Virtuous

"De senectute, De amicitia, De divinatione".

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