Truth
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If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either
Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth
He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie
So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge
In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy
All great truths begin as blasphemies
Truth allows no choice
All truth is valuable, and satirical criticism may be considered as useful when it rectifies error and improves judgment; he that refines the public taste is a public benefactor
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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