Quote of Marcus Tullius Cicero - Virtue is a habit of the...

Biography - Marcus Tullius Cicero:

Roman politician and lawyer.
Born: -106 - Died: -43
Period:
1st century BC
2nd century BC
Place of birth: Italy
Italy

Quote

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Quotes about nature:

Truly, art is embedded in nature; he who can extract it, has it.”
Albrecht Dürer

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.”
Blaise Pascal - Pensées

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.”
Francis Bacon

nature

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.”
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis - Satires

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.”
Edvard Munch

People must help one another it is nature's law.”
Jean de La Fontaine - Fables

All about nature...

Quotes about virtue:

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.”
Michel de Montaigne

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.”
Baruch Spinoza

Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.”
Ludwig van Beethoven

The virtues lose themselves in interest as the rivers are lost in the sea.”
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims

Humility is not a virtue; that is, it does not arise from reason.”
Baruch Spinoza - Ethics

There is no happiness without courage, nor virtue without struggle.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Emile, or On Education

All about virtue...

Quotes for: habit:

Custom is second nature.”
Augustine of Hippo

habit

The time at our disposal each day is elastic the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.”
Marcel Proust

While love may overcome death, it happens that a small, mean habit can overcome love.”
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Custom is the great guide to human life.”
David Hume

habit

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.”
Benjamin Franklin

habit

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.”
Virginia Woolf

habit

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Marcus Tullius Cicero also said...

Philosophy is the culture of the soul.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Justice seeks no reward.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Justice

Any man can make mistakes.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero

The art of living well, is of all the arts the greatest.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero - Ad Familiares, Letter IV to Varro

A friend is, as it were, a second self.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero

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