"We know how to speak many falsehoods that……" — Hesiod

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• I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies… — David Arquette
• The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty. — Abu Bakr
• He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him. — Abu Bakr
• The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound… — Niels Bohr
• Falsehood is a perennial spring. — Edmund Burke
• Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object. — Albert Camus
• Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water. — Miguel de Cervantes
• Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water. — Miguel de Cervantes
• Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water. — Miguel de Cervantes
• So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
• Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence. — Henri Frederic Amiel
• In all general questions which become the subjects of discussion, there are always some truths mixed with falsehoods. I confess,… — Alexander Hamilton

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