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Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul?

—Socrates

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It's easier to remember your lies if they're close to the truth.

—Jennifer Echols in Such a Rush

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As terrible as the truth was, there was something restful about it.

—Bree Despain in The Dark Divine

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The truth is, some relationships are supposed to last forever, and some are only supposed to last a few days. That's the way life is.

—Sophie Kinsella in Can You Keep a Secret?

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Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

—Kahlil Gibran

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If you have a gun, you can go out and shoot one, two, three, five people. But if you have an ideology and stick to it, thinking it is the absolute truth, you can kill millions.

—Thích Nhất Hạnh

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How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.

—Abraham Lincoln

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Truth is a rough, honest, helter-skelter terrier that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms.

—Ouida

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If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort, you will get neither comfort nor truth, only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin with and, in the end, despair.

—C. S. Lewis

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Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

—Harriet Lerner

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Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.

—Madam Guizot

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There can be no spirituality, no sanctity, no truth without the female sex.

—Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

—Abraham Lincoln

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

—Agnes Repplier

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Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

—André Gide

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