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There Is No Other Way Of Guarding Oneself Against Flattery Than By Letting Men Understand That They Will Not Offend You By Speaking The Truth
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There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than
by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking
the truth; but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their
respect.
-- Machiavelli
Related:
Don't make me speak in a New Language, Just let me tell you the way that I feel about you.
I sure don't want to offend anyone, But if you take away my words, how can I tell you the truth?...
Never offend with style when you can offend with substance.
If truth is stranger than fiction, you must be truth!
You can't tell me that cowboyx, when they're branding cattle, don't sort of "accidentally" brand each other every once in a while.
It's their way of letting off stress. -- Deep Thoughts, by Jack Handey...
If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you
but if not, you have infinite power against you. -- Charles Gordo...
Barclay: "Do you suppose this has changed the way people think about me?
LaForge: "Well, to tell you the truth, Reg, we don't know what to think....
Because I live in the hearts and minds of everyone who believes in TRUTH, JUSTICE and THE AMERICAN WAY.
And that is bigger than you. Bigger than anyone who tries to make me in their own image....
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) "The Moment and Other Essays" (1948)...
If you tell the truth, you must smile. Otherwise, people will kill you.