"Sometimes it’s more noble to tell a..." - Quote by Robin Williams
Sometimes it’s more noble to tell a small lie than to deliver a painful truth.
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More on Morality
“Virtue is uniform, conformable to reason, and of unvarying consistency; nothing can be added to it that can make it more than virtue; nothing can be taken from it, and the name of virtue be left.”
“Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.”
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More on Truth
“Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.”
“It is difficult for a statesman who still has a political future to reveal everything that he knows: and in a profession in which one is a baby at 50 and middle-aged at seventy-five, it is natural that anyone who has not actually been disgraced should feel that he still has a future.”
“We know the truth not only through our reason but also through our heart. It is through the latter that we know first principles, and reason, which has nothing to do with it, tries in vain to refute them.”