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“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”

“The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.”

“A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.”

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”

“We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.”

“The truth is more important than the facts.”

“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”

“Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”

“What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding. Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions — they are metaphors that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force.”

“If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!”

“If you tell the truth, you don't need a long memory.”

“When fiction rises pleasing to the eye, men will believe, because they love the lie; but truth herself, if clouded with a frown, must have some solemn proof to pass her down.”

“Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.”