Lying to another person makes you their slave.

I have met men who are habitual liars. They have lied so long that they no longer can distinguish between the truth and a lie. Their sensitivity to sin has been almost completely deadened.

The purpose of Propaganda is to make one set of people forget that other sets of people are human.

When whole races and peoples conspire to propagate gigantic mute lies in the interest of tyrannies and shams, why should we care anything about the trifling lies told by individuals?

The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow eating agony of a lie is never lost.

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

Sleep that masters all.

But what is happiness except for the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.

Perfect wisdom has four parts; Wisdom, the principle of doing things right. Justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private. Fortitude, the principle of not fleeing danger, but meeting it. Temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Can’t is the worst word that is written or spoken; Doing more harm here than slander and lies; On it is many a strong spirit broken, And with it many a good purpose dies.

If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule: never lie to yourself.

The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.

For truth is precious and divine—too rich a perl for carnal swine.

But all my life through, the very insistence on truth has taught me to appreciate the beauty of compromise.

Everything you say should be true but not everything true should be said.

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute.

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

Everything you said should be true but not everything true should be said.

If you compromise your own conscience, you will weaken your conscience. Soon your conscience will fail to guide you and you never will have real wealth based on peace of mind.

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.