"When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do."
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"I trust everyone. I just don't trust the devil inside them."
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"The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once."
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"The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else."
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"Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances."
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"Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories."
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"No man manages his affairs as well as a tree does"
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"Trust is built with consistency."
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"Lying can never save us from another lie."
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"I admire those who trust and are trustworthy."
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"One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life."
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"None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith."
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"It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them."
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"Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights."
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"Don't worry about this world; it is not broken. And don't worry about others. You worry more about them than they do. There are people waging war; there are people on the battlefield who are more alive than they've ever been before. Don't try to protect people from life; just let them have their experience while you focus upon your own experience."
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"Trust and honesty is an investment you put in people."
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"You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards."
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"Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means."
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"Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string."
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"I rejoice in what I have and I know that fresh new experiences are always ahead. I greet the new with open arms. I trust life to be wonderful."
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