Truth
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Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either
Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth
He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie
So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge
In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy
All great truths begin as blasphemies
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
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On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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