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Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives... by make-believe. (Quote by - W. Somerset Maugham)

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter. (Quote by - Denis Diderot)

The language of truth is unadorned and always simple. (Quote by - Marcellinus Ammianus)

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. (Quote by - Matthew Arnold)

A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent. (Quote by - William Blake)

Truth is by nature self-evident, as soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear. (Quote by - Gandhi)

It is a difficult task, Oh citizens, to make speeches to the belly, which has no ears. (Quote by - Plutarch)

The words of truth are always paradoxical. (Quote by - Lao-Tze)

A lie told often enough becomes the truth. (Quote by - Lenin)

Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written. (Quote by - Amos Bronson Alcott)

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. (Quote by - Martin Luther King)

When one has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass. (Quote by - Richard Steele)

No one means all he says and yet very few say all they mean. (Quote by - Henry Adams)

Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons. The truth will win this marathon in court. (Quote by - Michael Jackson)

Tis not antiquity, nor author, That makes truth truth, altho' time's daughter. (Quote by - Samuel Butler 1)

Truth is mighty and will prevail. (Quote by - Thomas Brooks)

Truth is a child of Time (Quote by - Don Ford)

The greatest friend of truth is time, her greatest enemy is prejudice, and her constant companion humility. (Quote by - Charles Colton)

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it. (Quote by - Mark Twain)

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)

The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head. (Quote by - Hsueh-dou)

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee. (Quote by - Immanuel Kant)

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie--diliberate, contrived, and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. (Quote by - John Fitzgerald Kennedy)

The power of man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doings. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)

There are truths that are not for all men, nor for all times. (Quote by - Voltaire)

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