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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world.
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Halld�r Laxness
Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth told in all sincerity.
Under the Glacier
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Haruki Murakami
When people tell a lie about something, they have to make up a bunch of lies to go with the first one. "Mythomania" is the word for it.
Norwegian Wood
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Pierre Corneille
A good memory is needed once we have lied
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Immanuel Kant
By a lie a man throws away and, as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man
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Epictetus
We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral
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Epictetus
Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world
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Henry Mencken
The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe
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Winston Churchill
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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