“Obsequiousness begets friends, truth hatred.”
Act I, scene i, Line 41
Andria (The Lady of Andros)
Original
Obsequium amicos, veritas odium parit.
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Terence 46
Roman comic playwright -185–-159 BCRelated quotes
“Truth and love will overcome lies and hatred.”
“Foil hatred with goodness and love and make those enemy your true friends!”
Understanding Islam, "Morals and Ethics" http://vod.dmi.ae/media/96716/Ep_03_Morals_and_Ethics Dubai Media
The one-sentence peace message summarizing her ideas. Ch. 3 : The Pilgrimage
Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words (1982)
“I am speaking to tell the truth, not from hatred or scorn of anyone.”
Io parlo per ver dire,
non per odio d'altrui, né per disprezzo.
Canzone 128, st. 4
Il Canzoniere (c. 1351–1353), To Laura in Life
“Plato is my friend — Aristotle is my friend — but my greatest friend is truth.”
Amicus Plato — amicus Aristoteles — magis amica veritas
These are notes in Latin that Newton wrote to himself that he titled: Quaestiones Quaedam Philosophicae [Certain Philosophical Questions] (c. 1664)
Variant translations: Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my best friend is truth.
Plato is my friend — Aristotle is my friend — truth is a greater friend.
This is a variation on a much older adage, which Roger Bacon attributed to Aristotle: Amicus Plato sed magis amica veritas. Bacon was perhaps paraphrasing a statement in the Nicomachean Ethics: Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
Justice in War-Time (1916), p. 27
1910s
“A friend tells you what you want to hear; a best friend tells you the truth.”