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The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll read more
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.
The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.
The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either...
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either...
If it is not true it is very well invented.
[It., Se non e vero, e molto ben trovato.]
If it is not true it is very well invented.
[It., Se non e vero, e molto ben trovato.]
Think truly, and thy thoughts
Shall the world's famine feed.
Speak truly, and each word of thine
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Think truly, and thy thoughts
Shall the world's famine feed.
Speak truly, and each word of thine
Shall be a fruitful seed.
Live truly, and thy life shall be
A great and noble creed.
The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of read more
The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world
A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent.
A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent.
'Tis not antiquity, nor author,
That makes truth truth, altho' time's daughter.
'Tis not antiquity, nor author,
That makes truth truth, altho' time's daughter.
You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have read more
You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.