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Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our me

Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory. – Denis Diderot

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If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you cant deny a kind of respect for the great criminal. – Denis Diderot

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When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music. – Denis Diderot

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Every night I go over what I did in the day, in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did I tell the truth? – Jeanne Moreau

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It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth. – Sophocles

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Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth. – Richard M. Nixon

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If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. – Adlai E. Stevenson

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