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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.

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

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Writing, Editing, Mind

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

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Writing, Law, History

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”

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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