Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.
And then she understood the devilish cunning of the enemies’ plan. By mixing a little truth with it they had made their lie far stronger.
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The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.
Evil comes from the abuse of free will.
My prayer is that when I die, all hell rejoices that I am out of the fight.
The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks.
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Nothing can now be believed which is seen in the newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.
Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
The universe does not favor the greedy, dishonest and evil people, even when it seems so. It helps honest, generous and virtuous people.
I’m not perfect. And who knows how many times I’ve fallen short. We all fall short. That’s the amazing thing about the grace of God.
A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.
Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.
I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.
No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
To offend a strong man, tell him a lie. To offend a weak man, tell him the truth.
False leaders create followers by lying.
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
Everything you said should be true but not everything true should be said.
For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits.
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.
Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.
