No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.

I love you and, because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

It was always like this. When you spoke the truth, they hated you. The more you talked about love, the more they hated you.

I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.

Truth can remain silent. Lies must be spoken.

Always tell the Truth : where it is not loved, it is respected and feared.

you do not realize that one has to learn to speak the truth. it seems to you that it is enough to wish or to decide to do so. and i tell you that people comparatively rarely tell a deliberate lie. in most cases they think they speak the truth. and yet they lie all the time, both when they wish to lie and when they wish to speak the truth. they lie all the time, both to themselves and to others. therefore nobody ever understands either himself or anyone else. think - could there be such discord, such deep misunderstanding, and such hatred towards the views and opinions of others, if people were able to understand because they cannot help lying. to speak the truth is the most difficult thing in the world; and one must study a great deal and for a long time in order to be able to speak the truth. the wish alone is not enough. to speak the truth one must know what the truth is and what a lie is, and first of all in oneself. and this nobody wants to know.

1814. Always tell the Truth : where it is not loved, it is respected and feared.

If you do not speak your truth, the Lies will become your truth

If you can wait and not be tired of waiting, or being lied about, don't deal in lies. Or being hated, don't give way to hating, and yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise.

To tell the truth is useful to those to whom it is spoken, but disadvantageous to those who tell it, because it makes them disliked.

Do not tell lies, and do not do what you hate, for all things are plain in the sight of Heaven. For nothing hidden will not become manifest, and nothing covered will remain without being uncovered. (6)

4243. Speak the Truth, and shame the Devil.

“We must say the truth”.