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The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth. – Jean de la Bruyere

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Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash. – Louis Aragon

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Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth. – Joan of Arc

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Mans mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth. – Desiderius Erasmus

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I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom. – Voltaire

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