#be true

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it. ↗

— Epictetus

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Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true. ↗

— Swami Vivekananda

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To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby. ↗

— George Herbert

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Even if I accepted that Jesus - like almost every other prophet on record - was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

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People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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I am sure it must be true that people opt out of the mainstream society because they feel that there are going to be no rewards for them, if they stay. ↗

— Mary Douglas

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Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man! ↗

— Charles Alexander Eastman

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So it's hard to be an artist and be true to the reality of the world you want to create and also make it entertaining and successful financially. ↗

— Antoine Fuqua

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Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

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