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01c. 172 BC

That is a true proverb which is wont to be commonly quoted, that "all had rather it were well for themselves than for another."

Terence / quote

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02Undated

Whoever has even once become notorious by base fraud, even if he speaks the truth, gains no belief.

Phædrus / quote

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03c. 51 AD

It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.

Pliny The Elder / quote

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04c. 83 AD

"You speak truth," said Themistocles; "I should never have been famous if I had been of Seriphus; nor you, had you been of Athens."

Plutarch / quote

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05c. 83 AD

So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history.

Plutarch / quote

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06c. 83 AD

It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man you will learn to halt.

Plutarch / quote

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07c. 83 AD

A traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedæmonian, "I do not believe you can do as much." "True," said he, "but every goose can."

Plutarch / quote

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08c. 83 AD

Both Empedocles and Heraclitus held it for a truth that man could not be altogether cleared from injustice in dealing with beasts as he now does.

Plutarch / quote

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09c. 60 AD

Yet God hath not only granted these faculties, by which we may bear every event without being depressed or broken by it, but like a good prince and a true father, hath placed their exercise above restraint, compulsion, or hindrance, and wholly without our own control.

Epictetus / quote

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10c. 60 AD

If what the philosophers say be true,—that all men's actions proceed from one source; that as they assent from a persuasion that a thing is so, and dissent from a persuasion that it is not, and suspend their judgment from a persuasion that it is uncertain,—so likewise they seek a thing from a persuasion that it is for their advantage.

Epictetus / quote

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11c. 60 AD

Things true and evident must of necessity be recognized by those who would contradict them.

Epictetus / quote

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12c. 150 AD

Whatever happens at all happens as it should; thou wilt find this true, if thou shouldst watch narrowly.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus / quote

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13c. 150 AD

Doth perfect beauty stand in need of praise at all? Nay; no more than law, no more than truth, no more than loving kindness, nor than modesty.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus / quote

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14c. 150 AD

If any man can convince me and bring home to me that I do not think or act aright, gladly will I change; for I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed. But he is harmed who abideth on still in his deception and ignorance.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus / quote

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15c. 150 AD

One Universe made up of all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of Being, and one Law, the Reason, shared by all thinking creatures, and one Truth.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus / quote

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16c. 150 AD

The nature of the universe is the nature of things that are. Now, things that are have kinship with things that are from the beginning. Further, this nature is styled Truth; and it is the first cause of all that is true.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus / quote

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17c. 150 AD

If it is not seemly, do it not; if it is not true, speak it not.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus / quote

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18c. 200 AD

Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he, "That when they speak truth they are not believed."

Diogenes Laertius / quote

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19c. 200 AD

Democritus says, "But we know nothing really; for truth lies deep down."

Diogenes Laertius / quote

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20c. 200 AD

If appearances are deceitful, then they do not deserve any confidence when they assert what appears to them to be true.

Diogenes Laertius / quote

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21Undated

And this I know: whether the one True Light Kindle to Love, or Wrath-consume me quite, One Flash of It within the Tavern caught Better than in the Temple lost outright.

Omar Khayyám / quote

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22c. 1524 AD

Then I began to think that it is very true which is commonly said, that the one half of the world knoweth not how the other half liveth.

Francis Rabelais / quote

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23c. 1524 AD

Speak the truth and shame the Devil.

Francis Rabelais / quote

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24c. 1562 AD

Apollo said that every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.

Michael De Montaigne / quote

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