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Cicero, fully Marcus Tullius Cicero, anglicized as Tully NULL
We don’t believe a liar even when he tells the truth.
Truth |
Friedrich Nietzsche, fully Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
The visionary denies the truth to himself, the liar only to others.
Truth |
Maimonides, given name Moses ben Maimon or Moshe ben Maimon, known as "Rambam" NULL
Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.
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Maria Von Ebner-Eschenbach, or Marie von Ebner-Eschenbachová, Marie Freifrau von Ebner-Eschenbach
There is something so beautiful in trust that even the most hardened liar must needs feel a certain respect for those who confide in him.
Michel de Montaigne, fully Lord Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of what the liar said to be certain. But the opposite of truth has a hundred thousand faces and an infinite field.
Truth |
Nicolas Chamfort,fully Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort, also spelled Nicholas
A man well-known to be a liar had just told a most improbable story. Sir, while I believe you, someone said, you must admit that it's very wrong of truth not to condescend to be more plausible.
Quintilian, fully Marcus Fabius Quintilianus, also Quintillian and Quinctilian NULL
A liar should have a good memory.
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Quintilian, fully Marcus Fabius Quintilianus, also Quintillian and Quinctilian NULL
It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.
When a liar speaks the truth he finds his punishment in the general disbelief.
Punishment | Truth |
Richard Wright, fully Richard Nathaniel Wright
First thing is, are you dealing with a liar or not?
Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances. Even if they are unhappy - very unhappy - it is astonishing how easily they can be prevented from finding it out, or at any rate from attributing it to any other cause than their own sinfulness.
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
See what will happen if you don’t stop biting your fingernails?
Aid | Government | Humanity | Man | Politics | Reason | Truth | Will | Government |
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
There is good news from Washington today. Congress is deadlocked and can't act.
Upton Sinclair, fully Upton Beall Sinclair, Jr.
In the most deeply significant of the legends concerning Jesus, we are told how the devil took him up into a high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time; and the devil said unto him: All this power will I give unto thee, and the glory of them, for that is delivered unto me, and to whomsoever I will, I give it. If thou, therefore, wilt worship me, all shall be thine. Jesus, as we know, answered and said Get thee behind me, Satan! And he really meant it; he would have nothing to do with worldly glory, with temporal power; he chose the career of a revolutionary agitator, and died the death of a disturber of the peace. And for two or three centuries his church followed in his footsteps, cherishing his proletarian gospel. The early Christians had all things in common, except women; they lived as social outcasts, hiding in deserted catacombs, and being thrown to lions and boiled in oil. But the devil is a subtle worm; he does not give up at one defeat, for he knows human nature, and the strength of the forces which battle for him. He failed to get Jesus, but he came again, to get Jesus' church. He came when, through the power of the new revolutionary idea, the Church had won a position of tremendous power in the decaying Roman Empire; and the subtle worm assumed the guise or no less a person than the Emperor himself, suggesting that he should become a convert to the new faith, so that the Church and he might work together for the greater glory of God. The bishops and fathers of the Church, ambitious for their organization, fell for this scheme, and Satan went off laughing to himself. He had got everything he had asked from Jesus three hundred years before; he had got the world's greatest religion.