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1 Praise| me your applause, that in truth as many of you as I behold 2 Praise| for which cause, since in truth they are morotatoi, fools, 3 Praise| presumed of matrimony, which in truth is no other than an inseparable 4 Praise| given to letters. To the truth of which I think the Catoes 5 Praise| thing that is more true than truth itself? However it might 6 Praise| this had the least face of truth, that Nature that was so 7 Praise| honest men and such as speak truth. And what is more commendable 8 Praise| is more commendable than truth? For though that proverb 9 Praise| Alcibiades in Plato attributes truth to drunkards and children, 10 Praise| whereof the one speaks truth, the other what they judge 11 Praise| having no one to tell them truth, they are forced to receive 12 Praise| princes are strangers to truth, and for this reason they 13 Praise| they don’t much care for truth. And yet this is found by 14 Praise| received with delight. For truth carries with it a certain 15 Praise| tragedy acting, whereas in truth there was nothing presented; 16 Praise| peculiarly mine, which in truth is so large and universal 17 Praise| the further they are from truth, the more readily they are 18 Praise| than things. They think truth is inconsistent with flattery, 19 Praise| with the false colors than truth; of which if anyone has 20 Praise| worship him in spirit and truth;” yet it does not appear 21 Praise| and gold in the street? In truth, I think not; in the most 22 Praise| have this received as a truth, lest nevertheless it might