Blaise Pascal
Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher
"Unless we love the truth we cannot know it."
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Falsehood
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
Politician, Philosopher, Orator
"Would that I could discover truth as easily as I can uncover falsehood."
Italo Calvino
Writer
"Falsehood is never in words; it is in things."
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"Past all shame, so past all truth."
Samuel Johnson
Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
"A few men are sufficient to broach falsehoods, which are afterwards innocently diffused by successive relaters."
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"None can be pleased without praise, and few can be praised without falsehood."
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"Affectation is the product of falsehood."
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"Falsehoods border on truths."
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"Falsehood falsehood cures"
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"A convention is an agreed-upon falsehood, a permitted lie."
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"Dissembling profiteth nothing; a feigned countenance, and slightly forged externally, deceiveth but very few."
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"It is a true saying that 'one falsehood easily leads to another.'"
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"All idealism is falsehood in the face of necessity."
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"History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood."
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"When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?"
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