Cicero On Duties Quotes & Sayings

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

No one has lived a short life who has performed its duties with unblemished character. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be discharged.
[Lat., Vulgo dicitur multos modios salis simul edendos esse, ut amicitia munus expletum sit.] — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

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

Cicero calls gratitude the mother of virtues the most capital of all duties, and uses the words grateful and good as synonymous terms, inseparably united in the same character. — Julius Bate

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