Pablo Neruda Quotes

I am going to do everything I can to clear my name.

When you fail to tell the truth, you are kept bound to the past in ways that devastate your soul.

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

I have too great a soul to die like a criminal.

I'm glad the truth is out. I'm glad everyone knows I'm innocent, not guilty.

No speech can stain what is noble by nature.

There is a noble and a base side to every history.

All is lost save honor.

The truth doesn't lie. It's up in your face. It's in your conscience. It challenges your very being with the intention of cleaning you of sin and its influence.

Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.

No one is diminished by the truth, rather does the truth ennoble all.

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

Truth is more praiseworthy than power.

I don't want to leave prison having been pardoned, but rather with my head held high, with dignity.

What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards.

I will prove my innocence, ... I guarantee the Filipino people that I will be vindicated because the truth is on my side.

Truth is the mother of joy. Truth civilizes, ennobles and purifies. The grandest ambition that can enter the soul is to know the truth.

Selflessness. Humility. Truthfulness. These are the three marks of an honorable man.

All that Christ did and suffered would have been necessary had only one human soul been the object of redemption; and nothing different and nothing more would have been required had every child of Adam been saved through his blood.

Never, be argued out of your soul, never be argued out of your honor, and never be argued into believing that soul and honor do not run a terrible risk if you limp into life with the load of a debt on your shoulders.

You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.

A lie is an affront to the soul, as well as an insult to the intelligence of the person to whom one lies.

There is but one thing of real value - to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men.

Though you cannot see, when you take one step, what will be the next, yet follow truth, justice, and plain dealing, and never fear their leading you out of [any difficult situation] in the easiest manner possible.

A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But an honest man's aboon his might: Guid faith, he maunna fa' that.