Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes About Lying
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Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie.
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A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth.
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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.
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So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
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No deceit is so veiled as that which lies concealed behind the semblance of courtesy.
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A good man will not lie, although it be for his profit.
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Within the character of the citizen, lies the welfare of the nation.
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