Truth never was indebted to a lie.

Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.

Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.

There's some truth to that. With offense, there's a lot more timing involved and things like that. I would say defense comes along quicker, but that's not an excuse for us not to get our work done.

What this means is that we shouldn't abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation.

Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.