Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes About Honor
-
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.
→ -
Ability without honor is useless.
→ -
A war is never undertaken by the ideal state, except in defense of its honor or its safety.
→ -
There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you.
→ -
Honor is the reward of virtue.
→ -
In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and glory.
→ -
Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.
→
Related Authors
-
Plutarch Biographer -
Ovid Poet -
Tacitus Historian -
Sallust Politician -
-
Epicurus Philosopher -
Julius Caesar Roman dictator -
Mark Antony Roman Politician -
Catullus Poet -
Lucretius Poet -
Virgil Poet -
Pompey Political leader -
Socrates Philosopher -
Augustus Roman emperor -
Plato Philosopher -
Marcus Licinius Crassus Roman Politician -
Saint Augustine Saint -
Seneca the Younger Philosopher -
Aristotle Philosopher -
Horace Poet