Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes About Duty

Quotes about: Duty

• There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Friendship, Kindness

• To reduce man to the duties of his own city, and to disengage him from duties to the members of other cities, is to break the universal society of the human race.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Race, Cities

• The first duty of man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Truth, Men, Firsts

• 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

• No one has lived a short life who has performed its duties with unblemished character.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Life, Short Life, Character

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 440-55, Tusculanarum Disputationum, I. 45, 1922.

• No phase of life, whether public or private, can be free from duty.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Military, Phases, Phases Of Life

• This is our special duty, that if anyone specially needs our help, we should give him such help to the utmost of our power.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Giving, Justice

• 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.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Life, Truth, Taken

• True law is right reason in agreement with nature;...it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions... It is a sin to try to alter this law, nor is it allowable to attempt to repeal any part of it, and it is impossible to abolish it entirely.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Agreement, Law, Trying

  "De Re Publica" by Marcus Tullius Cicero, translated by Clinton W. Keyes, Book III, Section (22), 1928.

• For while we are enclosed in these confinements of the body, we perform as a kind of duty the heavy task of necessity; for the soul from heaven has been cast down from its dwelling on high and sunk, as it were, into the earth, a place just the opposite to godlike nature and eternity. But I believe that the immortal gods have sown souls in human bodies so there might exist beings to guard the world and after contemplating the order of heaven, might imitate it by their moderation and steadfastness in life.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Believe, Order, Opposites

• Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Teacher, Fear, Teaching

  "Philippicae (Philippics)". Oration by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book II, Chapter 36), 44-43 BC.

• There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Punishment, Limits, Retribution

• For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what concerns oneself alone or dealing with another, can be without its moral duty; on the discharge of such duties depends all that is morally right, and on their neglect all that is morally wrong in life.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Life, Home, Phases

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.3065, Delphi Classics

• It was fear that was then making you a good citizen, which is never a lasting teacher of duty.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Teacher, Citizens, Duty

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.1364, Delphi Classics

• It is our duty, my young friends, to resist old age.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Young Friends, Age, Duty

  On Old Age XI.35

• There is no moment without some duty.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Moments, Duty

• There is no duty more indispensible than that of returning a kindness.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Kindness, Duty

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Cyrus R. Edmonds (1863). “Three Books of Offices; Or, Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on Old Age; Laelius, an Essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate. Literally Translated, with Notes, Designed to Exhibit a Comparative View of the Opinions of Cicero, and Those of Modern Moralists and Ethical Philosophers”, p.27

• It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be discharged.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Friendship, Salt, Common

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, De Amicitia, XIX, 1922.

• There is not a moment without some duty.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Moments, Duty

• 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

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