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All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent. ↗

— John Ruskin

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False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons. ↗

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

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Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue. ↗

— Sallust

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Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores? ↗

— George Sand

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It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases. ↗

— George Santayana

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The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy. ↗

— George Santayana

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True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Words may be false and full of art; Sighs are the natural language of the heart. ↗

— Thomas Shadwell

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To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. ↗