A Quote by Charles Peguy

The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful to truth must make himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable renascent errors

Charles Peguy

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Charles Peguy
French - Philosopher
January 7, 1873 - September 5, 1914

The life of an honest man must be a perpetual infidelity.

Charles Peguy

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George Bernard Shaw

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A. B. Simpson

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