Glory is the extraordinary reputation, fame, and honor resulting from a person's good deeds and great qualities. Aristotle says: honor is the greatest good among all goods external to the person. The just reward of merit must consist of external goods, which are the rewards of the most brilliant acts. Glory is the ornamentation of all other virtues.

Glory and beauty are two closely related sisters. Honor consists in making beautiful what one has to do.

In the Mandala of Emotions glory belongs to the family of virtues.

The good exercise of virtue leads us to happiness, the bad exercise of virtue to the loss of happiness. This depends on the mode, the occasion and the duration of the emotion.

Glory, like the firefly, shines at a distance; but seen very closely neither gives light nor heat.

Glory is a poison that must be taken in small doses.

Sacrifice yourself without hope of glory or reward! Only then can your peculiar destiny be fulfilled.

Human glory is nothing more than a breath of wind, which sometimes blows from here and sometimes from there.

Our greatest glory is not in never having fallen, but in getting up every time we fall.

Fame rests on the judgment of many, celebrity on that of the good.

The pleasure of glory lasts only an instant.

The glory of someone good is the testimony of a good conscience.

You succeed in life thanks to health, intelligence, character and some fortune.

The magnanimous man is directed towards beautiful and fruitless things, even more than towards useful and advantageous things.

The magnanimous is very fond of indolence and slowness, outside of opportunities to achieve great honor or seek some rare enterprise.

In many companies, to achieve glory it doesn't matter if you win: you just have to fight.

There is a certain glory in those who can express in words the great emotions that others can feel.

There is only one certain glory: and it is that of the soul that is content with itself.

The highest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker.

The more merit you have, the more you are entitled to a good share of honors, and the best person deserves the best share of them.

Greatness has whoever faces real and great dangers since he does not consider his life of such value as to preserve it at any price.

Sometimes the glory of the most famous people is assigned some of the myopia of their admirers.

Prizes are good for those who don't expect or seek them and bad for the character and integrity of those who try to get them.

Those whom the illusion of glory has subjugated, no longer find any charm in society or in pleasures.

Excessive greatness should always instill fear.

Whoever having an enormous merit disqualifies himself, then mainly, exposes the smallness of his soul.

We must put hope further away, resisting the temptations of immediate applause; glory is more difficult, but more worthy.

Those whom the people consider happy tremble and are stunned at their envied peak of glory.

A sign of having worn out one's own fame is taking care of the infamy of others.

Who, really, has been satisfied, after having achieved it, with that success that, when you wanted it, seemed enormous?

With the applause and flattering approval of the people, any head can warm.

Main cause of complaint: glory.

Do not sing glory, until the end of victory.

The vanity of human glory brings nothing to eat, but wind and emptiness.

Vainglory is boasting of triumphs.

The same happens with glory as with cooking: it is necessary not to witness the previous manipulations.

Perks of glory: enjoy a name that is on the lips of fools.

The sentences of this article are distributed throughout the Oracle of the Soul.