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The notion that you can endanger your physical and mental health by letting strong passions go unsatisfied is a vicious falsehood.
It is a general rule that when the grain of truth cannot be found, men will swallow great helpings of falsehood.
Now what I love in women is, they won't Or can't do otherwise than lie, but do it. So well, the very truth seems falsehood to it.
Every one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can; man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood.
It is man's unique privilege, among all other organisms. By pursuing falsehood you will arrive at the truth!
Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood; it is the crime of cowards.
All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.
Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
Truth, though, is nothing in the face of self-falsehood, and principles are of no value if the idealist cannot live up to his own standards.
Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.
Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love. The message isn't new, but we haven't learned to live it yet.
There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular - though profoundly mistaken - definition of myth as falsehood.
The moment one of the people took one of the truths to himself, called it histruth, and tried to live his life by it, he became a grotesque and the truth he embraced a falsehood.
A Falsehood is, in one sense, a dead thing; but too often it moves about, galvanized by self-will, and pushes the living out of their seats.
not judging truth to be in nature better than falsehood, but setting a value upon both according to interest.
As ten millions of circles can never make a square, so the united voice of myriads cannot lend the smallest foundation to falsehood.
It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood.
We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.
There are no friends more inseparable than pride and hardness of heart, humility and love, falsehood and impudence.
Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
PREHISTORIC, adj. Belonging to an early period and a museum. Antedating the art and practice of perpetuating falsehood.
The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
In the long run, the most unpleasant truth is a safer companion than a pleasant falsehood.
Nay, if there be any mistakes in the Bible, there may as well be a thousand. If there be one falsehood in that book, it did not come from the God of truth
We swear by the Quran and Sunnah, and we will not compromise with any infidel... Islam is the truth and all else is falsehood.
So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood.
gossip, after it reaches a certain point of insult and falsehood, becomes a source of amusement to its victims.
No human being can control love, and no one is to blame either for feeling it or for losing it. What alone degrades a woman is falsehood.
It is proof of sincerity, which I value above all things; as, between those who practice it, falsehood and malice work their efforts in vain.
Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.
To tell a falsehood is like the cut of a saber: for though the wound may heal, the scar of it will remain.
Public support in the U.S. for the war against Iraq was founded on a multitiered edifice of falsehood and deceit, coordinated by the U.S. government and faithfully amplified by the corporate media.
The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
There is no merit where there is no trial; and till experience stamps the mark of strength, cowards may pass for heroes, and faith for falsehood.
All genuinely noble women prefer truth to falsehood. As the Russians with their Czar, they are unwilling to see their idol degraded; they want to be proud of the domination they accept.
A man of faith will remain steadfast to truth even though the whole world might appear to be enveloped in falsehood.
If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.
We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.
Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
Falsehood, like the dry-rot, flourishes the more in proportion as air and light are excluded.
It will sometimes be necessary to use falsehood for the benefit of those who need such a mode of treatment.
Time's glory is to command contending kings,
To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.
There is often seen this anomaly in women, especially in those of childish natures,--that they possess at once great promptness and unskilfulness in falsehood.
You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.
Truth can be sifted out from falsehood only if the government is vigorously and consistently cross-examined, so that the fundamental issues of the struggle may be clearly defined
On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
A lie should be trampled on and extinguished wherever found. I am for fumigating the atmosphere when I suspect that falsehood, like pestilence, breathes around me.
Falsehood, like poison, will generally be rejected when administered alone; but when blended with wholesome ingredients may be swallowed unperceived.
The ultimate truth is penultimately always a falsehood. He who will be proved right in the end appears to be wrong and harmful before it.
It is the surest proof of man's natural enmity against God that he dares to impute falsehood to one who is truth itself.
Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth,
And thus do we of wisdom and of reach,
With windlasses and with assays of bias,
By indirections find directions out.
I am sure, zeal or love for truth can never permit falsehood to be used in the defense of it.
Lying is sometimes acted, insinuated, or implied, in a manner as injurious and shameful as when the falsehood is spoken outright.
Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.
Arguments cannot be answered by personal abuse; there is no logic in slander, and falsehood, in the long run, defeats itself.
There is something so mean and unmanly in the arts of dissimulation and falsehood that I am surprised they can be used by anyone in so noble, so generous a passion as virtuous love.
