Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

• So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Wise, Truth, Lying

  "Academici". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book IV, Chapter 21), translated, 45 BC.

• Within the character of the citizen, lies the welfare of the nation.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Lying, Character, Challenges

• He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Truth, Lying, Littles

  "Oratio Pro Quinto Roscio Comœdo" by Cicero, XX,

• For every man's nature is concealed with many folds of disguise, and covered as it were with various veils. His brows, his eyes, and very often his countenance, are deceitful, and his speech is most commonly a lie.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Lying, Eye, Men

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1850). “Cicero's Three Books of Offices, or Moral Duties; also his Cato Major, an essay on Old Age; Lælius, an essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the duties of a magistrate. Literally translated, with notes ... by Cyrus R. Ed”, p.313

• 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.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Truth, Lying, Honor

• Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Truth, Lying, Mind

• A good man will not lie, although it be for his profit.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Lying, Men, Good Man

• No deceit is so veiled as that which lies concealed behind the semblance of courtesy.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Lying, Deceit, Courtesy

• All men have a feeling, that they would rather you told them a civil lie than give them a point blank refusal.... If you make a promise, the thing is still uncertain, depends on a future day, and concerns but few people; but if you refuse you alienate people to a certainty and at once, and many people too.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Lying, Men, People

  "The Treatises of M. T. Cicero" by C. D. Yonge, On Standing for the Consulship, section 12, p. 499, 500, 1872.

• All literature, all philosophical treatises, all the voices of antiquity are full of examples for imitation, which would all lie unseen in darkness without the light of literature.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Lying, Philosophical, Light

• A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Lying, Liars, Telling The Truth

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, De Divinatione, II. 71, p. 485-87, 1922.

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