The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.

And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.

One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.

The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.