Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai [carry] the half-truth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts.

Robert Jordan
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  1. People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on... - Ayn Rand

  2. Before you enbark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. - Sara Shepard

  3. Maybe I could dole out the truth in tiny pieces that, once assembled, would make a picture that resembled a reality in which I hadn’t done anything wrong. - Paula Stokes

  4. Es gibt immer einen Punkt dabei, wo man nicht mehr weiß, ob man lügt oder ob das, was man erfunden hat, wahrer ist als man selber. - Robert Musil

  5. Alanna didn't approve of lying, but in a pinch a lie was sometimes better than the truth. - Tamora Pierce

More Quotes By Robert Jordan
  1. You have made a place in my heart where I thought there was no room for anything else. You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones. Remember this, on this journey you insist on making. If you die, I will not survive...

  2. Often you don't know whether a woman is friend, enemy or lover until it is too late. Sometimes, she is all three.

  3. Life is a dream from which we all must wake before we can dream again.

  4. Til shade is gone, til water is gone Into the shadow with teeth bared Screaming defiance with the last breath To spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the Last Day.

  5. One more dance along the razor's edge finished. Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today.

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