truth Quotes

Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.

We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.

However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.

No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.

Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.

Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.

We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.

It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.

We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.

Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.