It is not worthy of a speaker of truth to curse people.

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

Adversity is the first path to truth.

The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.

If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.

Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.

Truth suffers from too much analysis.

The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.

Never apologise for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologise for the truth.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen; If you say you see the true, This seeing is not the true one.

Strive always to excel in virtue and truth.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.

It isn't enough to talk about peace; one must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it; one must work at it.

The happiness of society is the end of government.

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.

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

There is nothing so powerful as truth - and often nothing so strange.