Quote by Joseph Conrad
Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That

Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of ones enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with ones friends. – Joseph Conrad

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This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still. – Joseph Conrad

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A mans real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love. – Joseph Conrad

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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth — and truth rewarded me. – Simone de Beauvoir

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Truth never damages a cause that is just. – Mahatma Gandhi

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Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man – the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true. – Bayard Rustin

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