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The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
(Sarah Bernhardt (1845-1923), French actor. The Art of the Theatre, ch. 3 (1924).
Written in 1923.)
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The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
(Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. "Civil Disobedience," originally published as "Resistance to Civil Government" (1849), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 4, p. 384, Houghton Mifflin (1906).)
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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
(Tertullian (c. 150-230), Roman church father. Apologeticus, VI.3.)
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If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.
(Epictetus (c. 50-120), Greek Stoic philosopher. 105.)
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I am as true as truth's simplicity,
And simpler than the infancy of truth.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Troilus, in Troilus and Cressida, act 3, sc. 2, l. 169-70.
Swearing eternal constancy in love to Cressida.)
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An epigram is a flashlight of a truth; a witticism, truth laughing at itself.
(Minna Antrim (b. 1861), U.S. epigrammist. Naked Truth and Veiled Allusions, p. 37 (1901).)
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"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,"Mthat is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
(John Keats (1795-1821), British poet. Ode on a Grecian Urn, st. 5, Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes and Other Poems (1820).
Closing lines.)
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I can teach thee, coz, to shame the devil
By telling truth: tell truth and shame the devil.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Hotspur, in Henry IV, Part 1, act 3, sc. 1, l. 57-8.
To Glendower ("coz" means cousin), who has been claiming supernatural powers; "tell truth and shame the devil" was proverbial (as the devil was the father of lies).)
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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
(F.H. (Francis Herbert) Bradley (1846-1924), British philosopher. Aphorisms, no. 6 (1930).)
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For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
(Aristotle (384-322 B.C.), Greek philosopher. Nicomachean Ethics, bk. 1, ch. 6, trans. by Terence Irwin (1985).
Often quoted (from the Latin) "Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth." Aristotle, who spent 20 years at Plato's Academy as pupil and teacher, referred to his philosophical colleagues at the Academy as "friends.")
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