If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that's a problem. Peace and love are eternal.

A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.

To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.

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.

Truth, like light blind. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.

The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.

A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting.

Those who cry the loudest are not always the ones who are hurt the most.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.

No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.

You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.