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The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.
If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
Does truth prevail more if we are not on speaking terms with those whose view of truth differs from ours?
The truth is an objective standard by which reality is measured; it's God's point of view on any subject.
When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
Just think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man?
Education ought to foster the wish for truth, not the conviction that some particular creed is the truth.
Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
What is it with you people? You think not getting caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth?
The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.
God has made many doors opening into truth which He opens to all who knock upon them with hands of faith.
I sometimes have these spells of compulsive truth. But as Lady Macbeth would say, "The fit is momentary."
We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
It always feels good to tell you the truth. If I can't share it with you, it feels like it didn't happen.
It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
Let her (Truth) and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
Let us continue to improve until we are filled with the knowledge of the truth. We have yet much to learn.
It's an unavoidable truth. Fear of life closes off more opportunities for us than fear of death ever does.
Truth has not single victories; all things are its organs,--not only dust and stones, but errors and lies.
To tell a falsehood is like the cut of a saber: for though the wound may heal, the scar of it will remain.
I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
As long as you are a part of the physical process of the existence, there is nothing that does not change.
We need to replace the lies of the enemy with the truth of God; to do so we need to know the truth of God.
While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.
The truth is the most important part of being impeccable with your word...Only the truth will set us free.
I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.
Death is at any time blessed but it is twice blessed for a warrior who dies for his cause, that is, truth.
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.
Whenever there is polarization, there is an unhappy tendency to think the truth lies somewhere in between.
Truth is different from error in two respects: it is a little harder to prove and more difficult to admit.
Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.
Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man's only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth.
The greatest happiness we can give to a mate comes from helping him or her to more understanding of Truth.
Nothing beats being really honest about who you are and what you need. All the rest just works itself out.
The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.
What the power structure is afraid of is that we're going to learn to recognize the truth when we hear it.
Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not.
When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.
... the constructive power of an image is not measured in terms of its truth, but of the love it inspires.
Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth.
A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.
He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.
This is why I belong, and why I believe. I commend to all this same search for happiness and for the truth.
When someone starts talking to me about the truth, what I hear is what they're telling me about themselves.
Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.
To make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life.