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Cicero quotes on virtue

2 verified English passages where Cicero’ s thought meets questions of virtue.

Cicero on virtue

Cicero (106–43 BCE) approaches virtue within Roman eclecticism. He developed natural-law and duty-based arguments through Academic skepticism and Stoic moral ideas. Systematically, the teaching links republic, law, duty into a practical and theoretical whole. On this page, the archive isolates English passages where that project meets virtue most directly—useful for searches such as “cicero quotes on virtue.”

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What did Cicero say about virtue?

The quotations below are the archive’s curated answer: English renderings selected for clarity and attribution, not a complete corpus.

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  1. Friendship cannot exist except among the good.
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  2. The best weapons of old age are the arts and practices of the virtues.