The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.


Marcellinus Ammianus

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The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.
AMMIANUS MARCELLINUS
The language of truth is unadorned and always simple. [Lat., Veritatis absolutus sermo ac semper e...
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The language of truth is simple.
EURIPIDES
Simple is the language of truth.
UNKNOWN
Truth is often attended with danger. [Lat., Pericula veritati saepe contigua.]
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Yet the success of plans and the advantage to be derived from them do not at all times agree, seein...
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Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation. [Lat., So...
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No power or virtue of man could ever have deserved that what has been fated should not have taken p...
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Evil events from evil causes spring.
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Wicked acts are accustomed to be done with impunity for the mere desire of occupation. [Lat., Sol...
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Any one who is prosperous may by the turn of fortune's wheel become most wretched before evening. ...
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No wild beasts are so deadly to humans as most Christians are to each other.
AMMIANUS MARCELLINUS
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells ...
MARGARET ATWOOD
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
OSCAR WILDE
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
OSCAR WILDE
Truth is always a delusion.
FRIEDRICH DURRENMATT
Language is the house of the truth of Being.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER
Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.
ROY THOMPSON
Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.
ST. JEROME
The simple truth is that everyone has an opinion, everyone has the right to voice it, and they shoul...
GEORGE CLOONEY
The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
GEORGE ELIOT
The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
GEORGE ELIOT
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. -Oscar Wilde.
OSCAR WILDE
Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth
ANNA JAMESON
Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.
ANNA JAMESON
I thought that it was more likely the opposite. I must have shut grief out. Found it in books. Cried...
NINA LACOUR
Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic...
STEPHEN KING
By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
GEORGE CARLIN
By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth
GEORGE CARLIN
A truth discovered always seems so plain and simple that we wonder why the discovery was so long del...
VASH YOUNG
A woman's face, naked and unadorned, is as beautiful as the moon, and as mysterious.
CATE TIERNAN
The words of truth are simple.
AESCHYLUS
It can't be that simple. Rarely is constitutional language that open and shut.
A.E. DICK HOWARD
Humans are aware of very little, it seems to me, the artificial brainy side of life, the worries and...
BRAD WATSON
Truth is simple as the fact we ignore.
MONK FROST
Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complicat...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE
The language of law should be simple and straight, if you expect people to obey it.
AMIT KALANTRI
The only simple truth is that there is nothing simple in this complex universe. Everything relates. ...
JOHNNY RICH
Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness whe...
JEANETTE WINTERSON
Language as putative science. -

The significance of language for the evolution of cultur...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things.
CONFUCIUS
Not everyone can speak or master the language of truth.
JAIME CONTRERAS
All religions, in their pure form, will tell you God is Love. And power, fear, division, judgment, o...
THE TRUTH
When you look back with regret, that (regret, loss) becomes your focus.
Then your focus direct...
THE TRUTH
The 'all for me and only me' mentality is the most destructive force on earth.
THE TRUTH
When you look back with regret, that (regret, loss) becomes your focus.
Then your focus direct...
THE TRUTH
We need not fear death, for it is simply the next phase of life. We never die, we simply change form...
THE TRUTH
Any perceived 'rejection' is simply a 're-direction'.
THE TRUTH
Without awareness, every one of us is at risk of living trapped, an unfulfilled trace of our self, b...
THE TRUTH
Never before had I opened myself so to the pain of truth: so wonderfully simple in theory, yet alway...
ROSS TURNER
If you say you will lead a people to a new age then do it, but don't hide behind your laws as an exc...
DEAN IBERHYSAJ
It is not the grain of grass that will decide mans future but the bullet that comes from the barrel ...
DEAN IBERHYSAJ
Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language.
KENNETH L. PIKE
Language is always the companion of Empire and Empire . . . is one Monarch and one Sword.
CARLOS FUENTES
Even when the truth is in fact simple, simplicity is still relative.
CRISS JAMI
Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.
LORD BYRON
The truth is always more heroic than the hype.
JESSICA LYNCH
In time of war, truth is always replaced by propaganda.
CHARLES LINDBERGH
I always say this: 'In life, truth is on your side.'
DANIEL SNYDER
Sanskrit is a beautiful contextual language. It is called “Dev Bhasha” the language of the soul....
AMIT RAY
The simple truth is that happy people generally don't get sick
BERNIE SIEGEL
The simple truth is that the implementation of Obamacare has hurt Americans and their health care mo...
KEVIN MCCARTHY
Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to cont...
JAMES A. BALDWIN
Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to cont...
JAMES ARTHUR BALDWIN
What is truth" I was asked. "Truth is neither good nor bad. Neither evil nor pure. It just is." That...
C. JOYBELL C.
His story is simple, because simple is always best.
STEPHEN KING
Profanity is proof of ones lack of aptitude to articulate the English language with intelligence, va...
WILLIAM E BRANDLE
The ornament of beauty, Shakespeare wrote, is suspect. And he was right. But beauty itself, unadorne...
DENNIS LEHANE
I have been writing fairy tales for as long as I can remember. Not much has changed in terms of my n...
KATE BERNHEIMER
Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C.
The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. The great philosophers have always been ...
MORTIMER J. ADLER
There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
CHARLES DICKENS
There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth
CHARLES DICKENS
Nobody believes me when I say that my long book is an attempt to create a world in which a form of l...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
Sometimes a significant truth is found in a simple sentence.
RODNEY LOVELL
It's very simple--it's the unfortunate truth.
ALFRED HUGER
The simple truth, the reality of the jury verdict has not changed.
JAMES SPENCER
The simple truth is that technology is still a poor substitute for human interaction.
ROBERT G. THOMPSON
I think the truth is black-and-white.
NANCY GRACE
First, tell the truth. It's simple and sometimes hard to do.
MARILYN TAM
Truth is a point of view, but authenticity can't be faked.
PETER GUBER
Something always attracts us towards the ruins, because ruins remind us our fundamental problem: The...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN
The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.
LYDIA MARIA CHILD
Pastor Smith did not have the religious constitution needed to provide salvation for any of us who�...
CHERYL R COWTAN
It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes i...
ROBERT MENZIES
The truth, of course, is that the only necessary and sufficient condition for human beings to murder...
JEFFREY KLUGER
Perhaps it is how we are made; perhaps words of truth reach us best through the heart, and stories a...
STEPHEN R. LAWHEAD
A musician's or artist's responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the...
TOM MORELLO
I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and ...
STEPHEN FRY
I am a lover of truth, a worshiper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and t...
STEPHEN FRY
Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in...
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Language is always burdened by thought.
TERRANCE HAYES
These descriptions do really state the truth- as nearly as the limitations of language will allow. B...
MARK TWAIN
My favorite language for maintainability is Python. It has simple, clean syntax, object encapsulatio...
BRAM COHEN
The truth is always more powerful and stronger than love, because the love becomes powerless in the ...
ANUJ SOMANY
The habitude of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it ...
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR
A standard international language should not only be simple, regular, and logical, but also rich and...
EDWARD SAPIR
The victim mindset produces a delusion of fault and blame that blinds you from the simple truth of c...
STEVE MARABOLI

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