"To them, I said, the truth would..." - Quote by Socrates
To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images.
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“I am afraid that old women are more skeptical in their most secret heart of hearts than any man: they believe in the superficiality of existence as in its essence, and all virtue and profundity is to them merely a veil over this "truth," a most welcome veil over a pudendum--and so a matter of decency and modesty, and nothing else.”
“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
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