Nuda Veritas. (Nudaque Veritas.)
The naked truth.
Quid verum atque decens euro et rogo, et omnis in hoc sum.
My cares and my inquiries are for decency and truth, and in this I am wholly occupied.
Ridentem dicere verum,
Quid vetat.
What forbids a man to speak the truth in a laughing way?
The truth shall make you free.
There is no truth in him.
Le contraire des bruits qui courent des affaires ou des personnes est souvent la vérité.
The opposite of what is noised about concerning men and things is often the truth.
La vérité ne fait pas tant de bien dans le monde, que ses apparences y font de mal.
| trans = Truth does not do so much good in the world, as the appearance of it does evil.
| author = La Rochefoucauld
| work = Maximes.
| place = 59.
| topic = Truth
| page = 820
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num = 5
| text = Veritatem laborare nimis saepe, aiunt, extingui nunquam.
| trans = It is said that truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.
| author = Lily
| work = Annates.
| place = XXII. 39.
| topic = Truth
| page = 820
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>The best way to come to truth being to examine things as really they are, and not to conclude they are, as we fancy of ourselves, or have
been taught by others to imagine.
Locke—Human Understanding. Bk. II. Ch.
XII.
To love truth for truth's sake is the principal
part of human perfection in this world, and the
seed-plot of all other virtues.
Locke—Letter to Anthony Collins, Esq. Oct.
, 1703.
When by night the frogs are croaking, kindle but
a torch's fire;
Ha! how soon they all are silent! Thus Truth
silences the liar.
Friedrich von Logau. See Longfellow's trans. Poetic Aphorisms. Truth.
Who dares
To say that he alone has found the truth?
Get but the truth once uttered, and 'tis like
A star new-born that drops into its place
And which, once circling in its placid round,
Not all the tumult of the earth can shake.
Put golden padlocks on Truth's lips, be callous as ye will,
From soul to soul, o'er all the world, leaps one electric thrill.
Then to side with Truth is noble when we share
her wretched crust,
Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 'tis
prosperous to be just;
Then it is the brave man chooses, while the
coward stands aside,
Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is
crucified.
LowEHi—The Present Crisis.
Truth forever on the scaffold. Wrong forever on the throne.
Children and fooles speake true.
But there is no veil like light—no adamantine armor against hurt like the truth.
Veritatis absolutus sermo ac semper est simplex.
The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.
Pericula veritati saepe contigua.
Truth is often attended with danger.
Truth, when not sought after, sometimes comes to light.
Not a truth has to art or to science been given,
But brows have ached for it, and souls toil'd and striven;
And many have striven, and many have fail'd,
And many died, slain by the truth they assail'd.
Who ever knew truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?
Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam.
<poem>Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old,
When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones, Forget not.
