Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes About Fame

Quotes about: Fame

• Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Shadow, Virtue

  "Tusculanarum Disputationum". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book I, Chapter 45), translated, 45 BC.

• True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Flower, Fall, Roots

• In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Book, Names, Philosopher

• Of all the rewards of virtue, . . . the most splendid is fame, for it is fame alone that can offer us the memory of posterity.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Memories, Rewards, Virtue

• There is a certain virtue in every good man, which night and day stirs up the mind with the stimulus of glory, and reminds it that all mention of our name will not cease at the same time with our lives, but that our fame will endure to all posterity.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Night, Names

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1856). “Select Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero”, p.146

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