A Lie Can Travel Half Way Around The World While

“With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.”

“The life of truth is cold.”

“A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.”

“Sometimes it is harder to accede to a thing than it is to see its truth.”

“People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.”

“Well, the way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test reality we must see it on the tight rope. When the verities become acrobats, we can judge them.”