The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.
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More Quotes from St. Augustine
Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
Unless you believe you will not understand.
The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
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Without properly kept accounts it is impossible to maintain truth in its pristine purity.
The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it and invent ridiculous embellishments.
There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution.
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.
We know how to speak many falsehoods which resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.
To offend a strong man, tell him a lie. To offend a weak man, tell him the truth.
