Falsehoods Are Blasphemies
One grain of truth wipes out a million lies. O grain of reality razes a castle of dreams. Honesty is a grand principle, a lustrous jewel.
If for the truth to be uttered it is damaging, it resigns its place to silence; lies have no place, even if they have some use. Everything you say should be true, all your pronouncements right,
but you have no right to say all that is true. One should be well aware of this and take as one’s principle: Take what is clear and untroubled, leave what is turbid and distressing.
See the good side of things; you will have good thoughts. Know things to be good and think of them as good; you will find the pleasure in life.
In life, hope and thinking favourably of things are life itself. While to think the worst is despair, the destroyer of happiness and slayer of life.