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“pride was i was fine simple causeto be focus of the man who loved many sources those werehis focus . i lived in falsehood likean unknown and loved him all alone”
“You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth.”
“Lies are neither bad nor good. Like a fire they can either keep you warm or burn you to death, depending on how they're used.”
“Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.”
“There is not a single untruth, no -but after ten lines Truth shrieks, she runs distraught and disheveled through her temple's corridors; she does not know herself. 'I can endure lies,' she cries. '...”
“The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!”
“The human mind is an organ for the discovery of truths rather than of falsehoods.”
“When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice, encourages what is harmful and discourages what is useful, applauds falseho...”
“The ultimate truth is penultimately always a falsehood. He who will be proved right in the end appears to be wrong and harmful before it.”
“A wise man's goal shouldn't be to say something profound, but to say something useful.”
“Truth, most succinctly defined is: That Which Is So. Non-Truth, most succinctly defined is: That Which Is Not So.”
“Well...letting the cat out of the bag is a lot easier than putting it in.”
“But he that sows lies in the end shall not lack of a harvest, and soon he may rest from toil indeed, while others reap and sow in his stead.”
“The simplest falsehoods are the strongest.”
“It's really hard to deal with a narrow-minded people that have a limited sphere of thinking, what ever you tell him/herwill be twisted into falsehood, the truth will be lost and will ruin everything.”
“The problem with being a liar is you can never believe anyone else.”
“You dont have to feed the lie if you dont want it to. If you make it credible it will become that, but only in your mind and only as disproportionate as youve decided it is. Truth has a way of bein...”
“There's something satisfying to proclaiming humility while knowing just how important you truly are.”
“Well packaged, even a falsehood may seem true or feasible.”
“The names they gave were false ones, though the vows they made were true.”