Marcus Tullius Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicerowas a Roman philosopher, politician, lawyer, orator, political theorist, consul, and constitutionalist. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the Roman equestrian order, and was one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists...
NationalityRoman
ProfessionStatesman
desire glory inspired keen man motivated
We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory
ability add education glory man natural raised rational
I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
ability attained education glory natural
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
excited glory praise
We are all excited by the love of praise, and the noblest are most influenced by glory.
death men glory
Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die.
virtue glory whole
The whole glory of virtue resides in activity.
life military glory
The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.
justice glory virtue
Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues.
opinion glory
I have always been of the opinion that unpopularity earned by doing what is right is not unpopularity at all, but glory.
fortune tests
The shifts of fortune tests the reliability of friends
experience injury knew running
The whole injury experience was so frustrating. I knew if I could get back I would never take running for granted,
born earlier events happened ignorant lifetime memory past stupidity unless woven
To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man's lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times?
born earlier events happened ignorant life lifetime memory past unless woven
To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man's lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times?
against proverbial stone stumble twice
To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace.