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Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
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Truth could be defended.
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Why charge we Heav'n in those, in these acquit?
In both, to reason right is to submit.
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We can refute assertions, but who can refute silence?
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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy
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There is no lie in war or preparation of war that can't be defended.
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The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood.
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Surrender to the ridiculous
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Concealment, my dear Maria, is the foe of tranquility: however I may err in future, I will never be disingenuous in acknowledging my errors. To
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Go, send, or disobey.
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I consider it a public duty to answer falsifications with facts. I will not pretend that I find this an unpleasant duty. I am an old campaigner, and I love a good fight.
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I make no other answer than the act,
the Master said: "The only fit reply
to a fit request is silence and the fact." [XXIV]
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Truth is not only a matter of offense, in that it makes certain assertions. It is also a matter of defense in that it must be able to make a cogent and sensible response to the counterpoints that are raised.
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Would thou confound thy enemy, be good thyself.
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Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
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oaths to deceive each other lest any foot should
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In the examples that I here bring in of what I have [read], heard, done or said, I have refrained from daring to alter even the smallest and most indifferent circumstances. My conscience falsifies not an iota; for my knowledge I cannot answer.
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Rarely affirm, seldom deny, always distinguish.
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Whatever defamation of character my enemies are spreading about me, I do not feel the need to justify myself toward them. While discretion obliges me to remain silent, my duty compels me to prevent them from doing any more harm.
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veiled insubordination that he
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You have both contested well: the one is forced by his sorrow to lament, the other by the plaintiff's attack to tell the truth. So plaintiff, yours is the honour! And Death, yours is the victory! Every man is obliged to give his life to Death, his body to the earth, and his soul to Us.
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You must emulate the truth you exhort.
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[P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification.
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Nothing is so conformable to reason as to disavow reason.
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To an incompetent judge I must not lie, but I may be silent; to a competent I must answer.
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The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to the unreasoned is the rational; to the uninformed, the enlightened; to the straight-out lie, the simple truth.
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nevermore will i lie in the wake of your ambivalence
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Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment.
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I lay down the Position, That whatever a Conscience well directed allows us to do for the Advancement of Truth, an erroneous Conscience will warrant for advancing a suppos'd Truth.
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Denial is a strong if imperfect defense.
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When I refuse to obey an unjust law, I do not contest the right of the majority to command, but I simply appeal from the sovereignty of the people to the sovereignty of mankind.
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When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.
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I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.
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For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man's nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.
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Honor thy error as a hidden intention.
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Disclaimer: If anyone disagrees with anything I say, I am quite prepared to not only retract it, but also to deny under oath I ever said it.
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He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie.
[Lat., Qui semel a veritate deflexit, hic non majore religione ad perjurium quam ad mendacium perduci consuevit.]
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When you would suffocate or ignore dissent, remember how many times you dissented.
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If we suspect that a man is lying, we should pretend to believe him; for then he becomes bold and assured, lies more vigorously, and is unmasked.
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Silence is complicity. Speak now or surrender your ground.
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Irene gasped. "Have you taken leave of your senses, Stuart?" she hissed. "Have you?"
Stuart closed his eyes.
"No," he said. "Au contraire." It was strong language for the Edinburgh New Town, but he had to say it.
"Don't au contraire me," said Irene.
But it was too late. He had.
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The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.
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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.
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I answer not, and I return no more.
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A sacrifice is best refuted by accepting it.
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Challenge authority; the authority of your own rational convictions.
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I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.
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I'm demanding to be prosecuted. I'm begging to be prosecuted for perjury.
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A rule that may serve for a statesman, a courtier, or a lovernever make a defence or an apology before you be accused.
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Refuting a merely contentious argument - a description which applies to the arguments both of Melissus and of Parmenides: their premisses are false and their conclusions do not follow.
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Now if you have proofs to bring forward, bring them forward, and your moral discourse as well; if you have no enthymemes, then fall back upon moral discourse: after all, it is more fitting for a good man to display himself as an honest fellow than as a subtle reasoner.
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One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.
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You admit nothing. Deny everything. Demand proof. Did you learn nothing in Boot Camp?
(Mace to Smitty)
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Prevarication, like honesty, is reflexive, and soon becomes a sturdy habit, as reliable as truth.
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What's retaliate?" asked Aphasia.
"It means, kill most of the enemy, and let the survivors apologies.
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At the very moment when we refuse to follow our conscience and refuse to be truthful, we become all the more aware of the presence of conscience and the absolute truthfulness inside.
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DISABUSE, v.t. To present your neighbor with another and better error than the one which he has deemed advantageous to embrace.
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only doubtful truths need defense.
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One must submit, like a traveller who has to ascend a mountain: if the mountain was not there, the road would be both shorter and pleasanter; but there it is, and he must get over it.
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It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.
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Forbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself vanquished, but, if it is false, gird up your loins to fight.
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It is of great importance to set a resolution, not to be shaken, never to tell an untruth. There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible; and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time, till at length it becomes habitual.
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Confrontation, n.: You turn away from the truth when asked to face it, while I stare at it too long, until it becomes a blur.
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To speak is to fall into tautology.
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You said we must coexist peaceably,' he continued. 'I agree. Instruct me how.'
'That was a lie,' she said, her voice choked. 'I meant to trick you to my table. You know this!'
'Truths sometimes appear in unbidden forms.
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Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.
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Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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These things and deeds are diametrically opposed: they are as distinct as is vice from virtue. Men too often confound them: they should not be confounded:
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ACKNOWLEDGE, v.t. To confess. Acknowledgment of one another's faults is the highest duty imposed by our love of truth.
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The simple act of an ordinary courageous man is not to take part, not to support lies! Let that come into the world and even reign over it, but not through me. Writers and artists can do more: they can vanquish lies! ... Lies can stand up against much in the world, but not against art.
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I often play a move I know how to refute.
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It is a noble responsibility to not back down when you know that you know that you know that you are right.
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As men are killed by fighting, the truth is lost in disputing.
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If one is seeking reasons for disloyalty, it is useful to find something one can resent.
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Don't mistake a desperate desire to salve your conscience for bravery,
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The sentence must also contain its own apology for being spoken.
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In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolucionary act.
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Do not lie to the Scholar.
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Bring forward what is true. Write it so that it is clear. Defend it to your last breath.
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Though I never scruple a lie to serve my Master, it hurts one's conscience to be found out!
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No party has renounced the right to armed resistance, in certain circumstances without lying
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He who flees from trial confesses his guilt.
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It is one of my faults, that though my tongue is sometimes prompt enough at an answer, there are times when it sadly fails me in framing an excuse; and always the lapse occurs at some crisis, when a facile word or plausible pretext is specially wanted to get me out of painful embarrassment.
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A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.
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Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.
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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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It is regrettable that, among the Rights of Man, the right of contradicting oneself has been forgotten.
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I do not feign hypotheses.
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To withdraw ourselves from the law of the strong, we have found ourselves obliged to submit to justice. Justice or might, we must choose between these two masters.
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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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Yield to him who opposes you; by yielding you conquer.
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Surrender to a logic more powerful than reason.
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There is something in the heart of man which will bend under moral suasion. There is a swift witness for truth in his bosom, which will respond to truth when it is uttered with calmness and dignity.
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Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai [carry] the half-truth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts.
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You correct an error by bringing truth to it.
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Against an oath; the truth thou art unsure.
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You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.
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Let what I here set down meet with correction or applause, it shall be of equal welcome and utility to me [...]And yet, always submitting to the authority of their
censure, which has an absolute power over me, I thus rashly venture at everything.
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Nothing can stop a lie whose fashion has come...