The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.
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Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
The day you stop caring what other people think of you, is the day your life begins.
Without properly kept accounts it is impossible to maintain truth in its pristine purity.
I drink to make other people more interesting.
One can only live while one is intoxicated with life; as soon as one is sober it is impossible not to see that it is all a mere fraud and a stupid fraud! That is precisely what it is: there is nothing either amusing or witty about it, it is simply cruel and stupid.
It's the truth I'm after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.
The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint.
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
Man's tongue is soft, and bone doth lack; yet a stroke therewith may break a man's back.
Understanding a question is half an answer.
Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.
We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth.
To offend a strong man, tell him a lie. To offend a weak man, tell him the truth.
No matter how outrageous a lie may be, it will be accepted if stated loudly enough and often enough.
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.
Lie to a liar, for lies are his coin; steal from a thief, for that is easy; lay a trap for a trickster and catch him at first attempt, but beware of an honest man.
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.
