Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury Quote

Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please by its resemblance.


Characteristicks of men, manners, opinions, times (ed. 1714)


Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please by its resemblance.

Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please by its resemblance.

Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please by its resemblance.

Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please by its resemblance.