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Glory Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero
- The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.
- Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
- True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.
- 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…
- Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues.
- We are all excited by the love of praise, and the noblest are most influenced by glory.
- Nature has circumscribed the field of life within small dimensions, but has left the field of glory unmeasured.
- In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and glory.
- I have always been of the opinion that unpopularity earned by doing what is right is not unpopularity at all, but glory.
- 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…
- True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can any feigned thing be lasting.
- Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
- I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
- We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory
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