• A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues. [Lat., Gratus animus est una virtus non solum maxima, sed etiam mater virtutum onmium reliquarum.]

    Marcus Tullius Cicero: A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.
[Lat., Gratus animus est una virtus non solum maxima, sed etiam mater virtutum onmium reliquarum.]
    "Oratio Pro Cnæo Plancio", XXXIII, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 336-37,