If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things.
Confucius
The object of the superior man is truth.
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Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.
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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it
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If names are not correct, language will not be in accordance with the truth of things
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It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great
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Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.
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Die Wahrheit hat keinen Erfolg.
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I do not open up the truth to one who is not eager to get knowledge, nor help out any one who is not anxious to explain himself. When I have presented one corner of a subject to any one, and he cannot from it learn the other three, I do not repeat my lesson.
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