How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
There is a certain virtue in every good man, which night and day stirs up the mind with the stimulus of glory,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Even while Jerusalem was standing and the Jews were at peace with us, the practice of their sacred rites was at variance… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We are all excited by the love of praise, and the noblest are most influenced by glory. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Nature has circumscribed the field of life within small dimensions, but has left the field of glory unmeasured. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory.… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Laughing, laughing, laughing, laughing! It is the jester! A voice from the Void, to cheer poor Cicero! I accept your gift, dearest Night Mother.… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education never first;… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Things sacred should not only be touched with the hands, but unviolated in thought. [Lat., Res sacros non modo manibus attingi, sed ne cogitatione… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Friendship embraces innumerable ends; turn where you will it is ever at your side; no barrier shuts it out; it is never untimely and… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
