Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.

There is a noble and a base side to every history.

To discover the true principles of Morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods: They have need only of common sense.

Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is that which we perceive as a value.

Right and wrong are not the product of census.

I won't lie to you and make you believe what's evil, is making love, and making friends, and meeting God your own way... the RIGHT way.

Truth is congenial to man. Moral truth is then most consummate when, like beauty, it commends itself without argument. The righteous not only does right, but loves to do right.

An honest man here lies at rest, the friend of man the friend of truth the friend of age and guide of youth. Few hearts like his with virtue warmed, few heads with knowledge so informed. If there's another world, he lives in bliss. If there is none, he made the best of this.

Morality is truth in full bloom.

The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature.

Great learning and superior abilities...will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.

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

Never suppose that in any possible situation or under any circumstances that it is best for you to do a dishonorable thing however slightly so it may appear to you... Encourage all your virtuous dispositions, and exercise them whenever an opportunity arises, being assured that they will gain strength by exercise ... and that exercise will make them habitual.

Justice, truth, and beauty are sisters and comrades. With three such beautiful words we have no need to look for any others.

If fun is good, truth is still better, and love best of all.

Knighthood lies above eternity; it doesn’t live off fame, but rather deeds.

Most virtue lies between two vices.

Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.

Liberty is the right not to lie.

Some day...after I am dead, you may perhaps come to learn the right and wrong of this. I cannot tell you.

Be NOBLE! and the nobleness that liesIn other men, sleeping, but never dead,Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.

Selflessness. Humility. Truthfulness. These are the three marks of an honorable man.

The absence of vices adds so little to the sum of one's virtues.

No man of honor, as the word is usually understood, did ever pretend that his honor obliged him to be chaste or temperate, to pay his creditors, to be useful to his country, to do good to mankind, to endeavor to be wise or learned, to regard his word, his promise, or his oath.

You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.