The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
People do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear it.
It's a lot easier to tell the truth usually.
To tell the truth is revolutionary.
It doesn't benefit me to lie to people. They're eventually going to find out the truth, and then where am I? That's the problem with liberalism and socialism, by the way: it has to be propped up by lies.
When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.
Sometimes people fear the truth. They'd rather not speak to you than know what you really think.
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.
People are always afraid of the truth.
It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.
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