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Always judge a man by the coloring of his heart and only his heart. Truth can be found in his record of actions, not intentions.

Nobody wants to be a part of your story. Everybody wants you to elaborate on their fantasies.

Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.

We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our own being; we desire to live an imaginary life in the mind of others, and for this purpose we endeavour to shine. We labour unceasingly to adorn and preserve this imaginary existence, and neglect the real. And if we possess calmness, or generosity, or truthfulness, we are eager to make it known, so as to attach these virtues to that imaginary existence. We would rather separate them from ourselves to join them to it; and we would willingly be cowards in order to acquire the reputation of being brave. A great proof of the nothingness of our being, not to be satisfied with the one without the other, and to renounce the one for the other! For he would be infamous who would not die to preserve his honour.

You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.

"Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water."
~ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ~

To be persuasive we must be believable;
to be believable we must be creditable;
to be credible we must be truthful.

Edward R. Murrow, American broadcast journalist (1908–1965)

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Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.

Whenever you deny the hand of Justice, Violence almost always steps in.

To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself — that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word 'doublethink' involved the use of doublethink.

Pick a leader who will make their citizens proud. One who will stir the hearts of the people, so that the sons and daughters of a given nation strive to emulate their leader's greatness. Only then will a nation be truly great, when a leader inspires and produces citizens worthy of becoming future leaders, honorable decision makers and peacemakers. And in these times, a great leader must be extremely brave. Their leadership must be steered only by their conscience, not a bribe.

Nations reel and stagger on their way; they make hideous mistakes; they commit frightful wrongs; they do great and beautiful things. And shall we not best guide humanity by telling the truth about all this, so far as the truth is ascertainable?

They will only care when you're gone.

Marilyn Monroe, American actress and model (1926–1962)

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Selflessness. Humility. Truthfulness. These are the three marks of an honorable man.

Don't tell a lie to be loved, speak the truth to be hated.

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