A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth.
A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.
Peace at home is peace in the country. Peace in the country is peace in the world.
No one lights a lamp and puts it in a place where it will be hidden, or under a bowl. Instead he puts it on its stand, so that those who come in may see the light.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
Strive always to excel in virtue and truth.
Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
The happiness of society is the end of government.
Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.
Truth, like light blind. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
It takes a certain ingenuous faith- but I have it -to believe that people who read and reflect more likely than not come to judge things with liberality and truth.
Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting.
