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
becoming behavior honorable
What is becoming in behavior is honorable, and what is honorable is becoming
honor mind matter
Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.
philosophical honor rewards
Honor is the reward of virtue.
honorable persons
It is not the place that maketh the person, but the person that maketh the place honorable.
war safety honor
A war is never undertaken by the ideal State, except in defense of its honor or its safety.
honor trying praise
There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you.
powerful men honorable-man
When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself.
character men honor
In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and glory.
honorable
What is permissible is not always honorable.
army honor useless
Ability without honor is useless.
war hero honor
Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.
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?