An illusion which makes me happy is worth a verity which drags me to the ground.
Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none.
Anything more than the truth would have seemed too weak.
Time trieth troth in every doubt.
Vitam impendere vero. To stake one's life for the truth.
The precipitancy of disputation, and the stir and noise of passions that usually attend it, must needs be prejudicial to verity.
You can't kill the truth.
It is strange how long we rebel against a platitude until suddenly in a different lingo it looms up again as the only verity.