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Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.
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A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
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A man whose mind feels that it is captive would prefer to blind himself to the fact. But if he hates falsehood, he will not do so; and in that case he will have to suffer a lot. He will beat his head against the wall until he faints. He will come to again
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Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.
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All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.
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Belief is with them mechanical, voluntary: they believe what they are paid for - they swear to that which turns to account. Do you suppose, that after years spent in this manner, they have any feeling left answering to the difference between truth and falsehood?
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Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affection, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
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Delicacy is the coquetry of truth; fastidiousness is the prudery of falsehood.
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Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.
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Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.
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Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.
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Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
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It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.
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Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.
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Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols - it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them.
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No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous, than the fact, which it endeavors to establish.
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
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