The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted. – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Category: Honesty
It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian. – John Updike Category: Honesty
Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful. – Ralph Waldo Emerson Category: Light
Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope. – Titus Maccius Plautus Category: Hope