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False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the...

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces, but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

Quote by Richard Burton about friendship, life

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is...

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

Quote by Albert Camus about lie, light, truth

Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will...

Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about lie, water, truth

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always...

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about lie, water, truth

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about lie, water, truth

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do...

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about lie, truth, man

To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is...

To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.

Quote by Frank Herbert about lie, light, truth

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about lie, wealth, knowledge, man, truth

Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites...

Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about tests, lie, truth

It is more from carelessness about truth than from...

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about lie, truth, world

It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.

It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.

Quote by Thomas Paine about lie

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so...

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about truth, lie, love

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction, we both...

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

Quote by Blaise Pascal about human imperfections, lie

Joking, we make a truce between truth and falsehood.

Joking, we make a truce between truth and falsehood.

Quote by Iulian Andrei about opinion, lie, truth

The lie is the vacantion of truth.

The lie is the vacantion of truth.

Quote by Lucian Blaga about truth, lie

A lie gets halfway around the world, before the truth has...

A lie gets halfway around the world, before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Quote by Winston Churchill about lie, chance, truth, world

To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts...

To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

Quote by William Wordsworth about poetry, garden, tears, lie

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited;...

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.

Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about talent, lie, genius, action, imagination, reason, being

Thou canst not then be false to any man.

Thou canst not then be false to any man.

Quote by William Shakespeare about philosophy, man

There's a sweetness to it. My singing style is very soft, ...

There's a sweetness to it. My singing style is very soft, my signature is falsetto, with a breathy tone.

Quote by Aaliyah about music, style

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