Se l'arte dell'eloquenza è l'arte di persuadere, non vi è altra eloquenza che quella di dire sempre il vero, il solo vero, il nudo vero. Le parole, onde è necessità di nostra inferma natura di rivestire il pensiero, saranno tanto più potenti, quanto più atte al fine, cioè più nudo lasceranno il vero, che è nel pensiero.
Platone in Italia
“Truth! stark naked truth, is the word, and I will not so much as take the pains to bestow the strip of a gauze-wrapper on it.”
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John Cleland 6
British writer 1709–1789Related quotes
“It is as much an error to take truth for lies, as lies for truth.”
Source: World of the Five Gods series, The Hallowed Hunt (2005), Chapter 8 (p. 134)
“There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.”
No. 88.
Aphorisms (1930)
"Life After Lebanon" (1984), later published in On Call : Political Essays (1985), and Some of Us Did Not Die : New and Selected Essays of June Jordan (2002)
12 October 1859 (p. 388)
1831 - 1863, Delacroix' 'Journal' (1847 – 1863)
“How much of this truth can I bear to see and still live
unblinded?
How much of this pain
can I use?”
Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches