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
men plato rather swear truth wrong
I swear I would rather be wrong with Plato than see the truth with men like these.
truth men firsts
The first duty of man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.
truth mind desire
Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.
inspirational truth honesty
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?
life truth taken
We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
truth philosophical mind
Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.
wise truth lying
So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
truth writing law
Who does not know history's first law to be that an author must not dare to tell anything but the truth? And its second that he must make bold to tell the whole truth? That there must be no suggestion of partiality anywhere in his writings? Nor of malice?
truth lying littles
He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie. [Lat., Qui semel a veritate deflexit, hic non majore religione ad perjurium quam ad mendacium perduci consuevit.]
truth men world
Oh, how great is the power of truth! which of its own power can easily defend itself against all the ingenuity and cunning and wisdom of men, and against the treacherous plots of all the world.
liars lying telling-the-truth
A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth.
truth writing law
The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice.
truth self would-be
If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary.
truth falsehood
It is a true saying that 'one falsehood easily leads to another.'