Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The happy medium - truth in all things - is no longer either known or valued; to gain applause, one must write things so inane that they might be played on barrel-organs, or so unintelligible that no rational being can comprehend them, though on that very account, they are likely to please.

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No legacy is so rich as honesty.

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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Denis Diderot 45

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Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Thomas Jefferson 34