Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.

You can see how he changed on the surface. But at the core of it all, I think Superman has remained the same - a character with incredible powers but almost superhuman humility and restraint.

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever.

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

Be prepared, and be careful not to do your good deeds when there's no one watching you.

The happiest ones are those who have a character which would prefer their services to be unknown to all generations.

My favourite virtue is not having any.

If you have money, and you help people, you don't talk about it. Just do it.

it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.

Honor modesty more than your life.

Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.

Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.

Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice.

True goodness is like the glow-worm in this, that it shines most when no eyes except those of heaven are upon it.

Selflessness. Humility. Truthfulness. These are the three marks of an honorable man.

I think service is honorable, and that was always inculcated in me.

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.

One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.

A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Success to me is being a good person, treating people well.

He lives to build, not boast, a generous race; No tenth transmitter of a foolish face.

I know what real courage is, and I understand true compassion.

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.