Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes About Glory

Quotes about: Glory

• I have always been of the opinion that unpopularity earned by doing what is right is not unpopularity at all, but glory.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Opinion, Glory

  Cicero,, Marcus Tullius Cicero, D.H. Berry (2009). “Political Speeches”, p.167, Oxford University Press

• Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Justice, Virtue, Glory

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.3069, Delphi Classics

• 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.

• We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Book, Writing, Men

• 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

• The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Life, Military, Glory

  Cicero, Marcus Tullius Cicero (2006). “De Officiis Or on Duties on Obligations”, p.51, ReadHowYouWant.com

• In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and glory.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Character, Men, Honor

• 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

• The whole glory of virtue resides in activity.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Virtue, Glory, Whole

• Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Death, Men, Glory

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.2321, Delphi Classics

• We are all excited by the love of praise, and the noblest are most influenced by glory.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Excited, Praise, Glory

  "Pro Archia Poeta". Oration by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Exordium (Introduction) line 11), 62 BC.

• 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

• Nature has circumscribed the field of life within small dimensions, but has left the field of glory unmeasured.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Nature, Fields, Dimensions

• How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising glory.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Writing, Signatures, Philosopher

• True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can any feigned thing be lasting.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Flower, Fall, Roots

  "De Officiis". Treatise by Marcus Tullius Cicero, Book II, section 43, 44 B.C..

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