Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero with virtue

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Roman statesman and writer

Lived from: 106 - 43

Category: Politics | Writers (Contemporary)

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• Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

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• Honor is the reward of virtue.

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• I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.

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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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• 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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• Virtue is its own reward.

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• 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 action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

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• 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 be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience.

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Subjects in these quotes:

• notwithstanding
• dishonorable
• commendation
• praiseworthy
• conscience
• whatever

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