Posted by: Ugo Perugini
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Truth and lies)
Truth is the supreme ability.
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Truth is the supreme ability.
Because a reality wasn't given to us and is not there; but we have to make it ourselves, if we want to be; and it will never be one for ever, but constant and infinitely changeable.
With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
The truth, to which only a brief triumph is allotted between the two long periods in which it is condemned as paradoxical or disparaged as trivial.
Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
It is an heretic that makes the fire, Not she which burns in't.
There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.
What is the difference between someone who is convinced and one who is deceived? None, if he is well deceived.
A mask tells us more than a face.
A thing is not necessarily true just because someone dies for it.