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Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

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Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose. ↗

— Czeslaw Milosz

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It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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The main cause is a pernicious falsehood propagated against her being, namely that she is inferior by her nature. Inferior in what? What has man ever done that woman, under the same advantages could not do? ↗

— Ernestine Rose

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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things. ↗

— Hesiod

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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood. ↗

— Leslie Stephen

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