Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes About Dignity

Quotes about: Dignity

• We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Race, Unions, Fellowship

• What is dignity without honesty?

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Honesty, Dignity

• He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Friendship, Respect, Ornaments

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1855). “Cicero's Three books of offices, or moral duties: also his Cato Major, an essay on old age; Lælius, an essay on friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's dream; and Letter to Quintus on the duties of a magistrate”, p.203

• They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Dignity, Speak, Lows

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1871). “The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero”, p.410

• The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Mean, Things In Life, Leisure

• Leisure with dignity.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Leisure, Dignity

  Pro Sestio ch. 98

• Even while Jerusalem was standing and the Jews were at peace with us, the practice of their sacred rites was at variance with the glory of our empire, the dignity of our name, the customs of our ancestors.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Practice, Names, Jerusalem

• Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Truth, Honesty

• We ought to regard amiability as the quality of woman, dignity that of man.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Quality, Dignity

• The house should derive dignity from the master, not the master from the house.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  House, Dignity, Should

• It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of dignity.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Crush, Flower, Envy

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