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In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.