Posted by: Cheope
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Truth and lies)
If it is true that youth is a deficiency, we hastily correct ourselves of it.
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If it is true that youth is a deficiency, we hastily correct ourselves of it.
Life is like the Sibylline books; the more concise, the more precious.
A stated truth loses its grace, but a repeated error appears insipid and ridiculous.
All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
The truth isn't quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
There's just one horrible thing in the world, only one unforgivable sin: the boredom.
It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the pavingstone, and can be made as offensive as the brickbat.