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Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.
A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.
An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.
Man may well have covered over and, so to speak, encrusted the truth with the errors he has loaded onto it, but these errors are local, and universal truth will always show itself.