A Quote by Aeschylus

There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.

Aeschylus

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Aeschylus
Greek - Poet
525 BC - 456 BC

There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.

Juvenal

I am crazy as hell, but I know it. And knowing it is a kind of sanity that makes the sickness worse.

Anne Sexton

I think we have in Germany too many sickness funds. We started with more than 1,000 sickness funds. But the fewer sickness funds there are, the less bureaucracy and the easier the system is to operate. But it is important that the best sickness funds survive.

Karl Lauterbach

Worse than telling a lie is spending the rest of your life staying true to a lie.

Robert Breault

But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.

Lillian Hellman

Can there be worse sickness, than to know that we are never well, nor can be so?

John Donne

There is no worse sickness for the soul, o you who are proud, than this pretense of perfection.

Rumi

No sickness worse than imagining thyself to be perfect can afflict thy soul.

Rumi

There are worse things than having behaved foolishly in public. There are worse things than these miniature betrayals, committed or endured or suspected; there are worse things than not being able to sleep for thinking about them. It is 5 a.m. All the worse things come stalking in and stand icily about the bed looking worse and worse and worse.

Fleur Adcock

Leaders must not be naive. I used to say, "Liars shouldn't lie." What a sad waste of words that is! I found out liars are supposed to lie. That's why we call them liars - they lie! What else would you expect them to do?

Jim Rohn

There are worse words than cuss-words, there are words that hurt.

Tillie Olsen

There are worse words than cuss words, there are words that hurt.

Tillie Olsen

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.

Alexander Pope

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.

Pope John Paul II

I can admit, now, that I must have loved Lena. Not in an Unnatural way, but my feelings for her must have been a kind of sickness. How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?

Lauren Oliver

There’s more to honesty than … than an arrangement of words. They say faeries can’t lie, but you lie in your intentions, your attitude, your demeanor —

Cassandra Clare

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