Marcus Tullius Cicero Honor Quotations

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.

If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second.

Honor is the reward of virtue.

It is not the place that maketh the person, but the person that maketh the place honorable.

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.

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.

In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and glory.

What is permissible is not always honorable.

What is becoming in behavior is honorable, and what is honorable is becoming

Ability without honor is useless.

Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.