Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.

...guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.

It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.

Jesus never instructed men to do what was right because it was right; yet this is the true reason why they should do it.

There is no truth without responsibility following in its wake.

Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man.

The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.

We have, all of us, our duties. Every action of our lives, and every word that we utter, will either conduce to or detract from the discharge of our duty.

Freedom without virtue isn't freedom - it will eventually destroy a society.

Stern daughter of the voice of God! O Duty! if that name thou love Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring and reprove.

[Women's] duty is nothing else than the fulfilment [sic] of the whole moral law, the attainment of every human virtue.

My overall responsibility is to be truthful. If people pay money to come and see me, looking for something other than that, then they've made a mistake.

It is of no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

To an honest man, it is an honor to have remembered his duty.

Do well the duty that lies before you.

Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.

The doing of things from duty is but a stage on the road to the kingdom of truth and love.

I urge you by all this is dear, by all that is honorable, by all that is sacred, not only that you pray but also that you act!

Is is always time to do the right thing.

It is the responsibility of every human to know their actions and the consequences of their actions and to ask questions and to question things when they are wrong.

My responsibility to myself, my neighbors, my family and the human family is to try to tell the truth.

Anything that we have to learn to do we learn by the actual doing of it; People become builders by building and instrumentalists by playing instruments. Similarily, we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.