On Trying Too Hard to Tell the Truth

“There is a general and striking difference between the genuine effects of truth itself, and the effects of falsehood believed to be truth. Truth is naturally benign; but falsehood believed to be truth is always furious. The former delights in serenity, is mild and persuasive, and seeks not the auxiliary aid of invention. The latter sticks at nothing.”

The truth doesn’t dodge and weave; it doesn’t accuse, it neither demands or shuns attention. It is just there, perfectly comfortable with itself.

Falsehood is always on the run, often hides behind a forced claim at being the truth. But it never is, no matter how strident the insistence to the contrary.

Too much time spent explaining the truth probably means that you’re lying.

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