Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

An honorable man or woman is one who is truthful; free from deceit; above cheating, lying, stealing, or any form of deception. An honorable man or woman is one who learns early that one cannot do wrong and feel right. A man's character is judged on how he keeps his word and his agreements.

Honesty is largely a matter of information, of knowing that dishonesty is a mistake. Principle is not as powerful in keeping people straight as a policeman.

A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.

Honesty is nothin' compared to decency.

Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.

If I have one wish which is greater than another, it is, if I had the power, to make men do right; to make them stop their swearing, their lying, their deceiving, to stop trying to injure the innocent, and begin to be honest and upright in all their dealings with one another and honor the name of the Deity.

True education seeks to make men and women not only good mathematicians, proficient linguists, profound scientists, or brilliant literary lights, but also honest men and women with virtue, temperance, and brotherly love.

Truthfulness is the main element of character.

The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be, all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.

Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.

Throughout my life, I have always tried to do what is right.

I'm actually a pretty decent human being, and when I'm home I'm straight as an arrow.

I'm actually a very moral guy.

I think I have gone through my entire public career never telling a lie. I have made mistakes but I never knowingly lied.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

The just man walks in his integrity

The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying.

He who does not need to lie is proud of not being a liar.

My cares and my inquiries are for decency and truth, and in this I am wholly occupied.

A clean and sensitive conscience, a steady and scrupulous integrity in small things as well as large, is the most valuable of all possessions, to a nation as to an individual.

For he who is honest is noble, Whatever his fortunes or birth.

A good moral character is the first essential. It is highly important not only to be learned but to be virtuous.

There is no greater virtue than honesty.

A hero must be honorable, must have honor. And you can't have honor if you're a liar. There is no honor in lying.

It is not right or manly to lie even about Satan.