It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him and to speak painful truth through loving words that is friendship.
How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
Friendship at first sight like love at first sight is said to be the only truth.
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society.
Well the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis an antagonism which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact can simplify the history of human society the evolution of human society as a contest between power and freedom.
When a truth is not given complete freedom freedom is not complete.
The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom - they are the pillars of society.
The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.