Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury Quotes About Truth
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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.
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Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please by its resemblance. The appearance of reality is necessary to make any passion agreeably represented, and to be able to move others we must be moved ourselves, or at least seem to be so, upon some probable grounds.
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The face of Truth is not less fair and beautiful for all the counterfeit visors which have been put upon her.
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