Truth can be costly, but in the end it never falls short of value for the price paid.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt.
Never lie when the truth is more profitable.
Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.
A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.
Truth is life's most precious commodity.
The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none.
Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.
Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren't things to think about any more. All that matters is value - the ultimate value of what one does.
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