“2084. He that does not speak Truth to me, does not believe me when I speak Truth.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“The man of the Midi does not lie, he deceives himself. He does not always speak the truth but he believes he speaks it.”
— Alphonse Daudet, book Tartarin of Tarascon
L'homme du Midi ne ment pas, il se trompe. Il ne dit pas toujours la vérité, mais il croit la dire.
Source: Tartarin de Tarascon (1872), P. 40; translation p. 17.
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