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“Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.” Blaise Pascal, Pensées
“false words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.” Plato, Phaedo
“Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.” Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
“The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!” Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
“For True and False are attributes of Speech, not of things. And where Speech in not, there is neither Truth nor Falshood.” Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence.” Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
“All falsehood is a mask; and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face.” Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
“a 'wrong datum' is one which is inconsistent with all other known data. It is our only criterion of right and wrong.” Isaac Asimov, I, Robot
“The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.” E. M. Forster, A Room with a View
“But he that sows lies in the end shall not lack of a harvest, and soon he may rest from toil indeed while others reap and sow in his stead.” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion
“all men feel sometimes the falsehood which they cannot demonstrate. For men are wiser than they know.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Compensation
“God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.” William Shakespeare, Hamlet
“Victor, when falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?” Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
“We become so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that at last we are disguised to ourselves.” François de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

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