Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Thank You, Time, Children

• 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.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Truth, Writing, Law

  De Oratore. It is more important that these maxims be observed by U.S. intelligence analysts than by historians.

• We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Book, Writing, Men

• Who does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Writing, Law, History

• Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Writing, Editing, Mind

• Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Philosophical, Writing, Ifs

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1962). “Cicero: Letters to Atticus”

• Nulla (enim) res tantum ad dicendum proficit, quantum scriptio Nothing so much assists learning as writing down what we wish to remember.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Writing, Learning, Science

• How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising glory.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Writing, Signatures, Philosopher

• 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?

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Truth, Writing, Law

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