Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
Chicken exits are self-sabotage. They give you a false explanation for why you don't have something you want.
Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness.
He takes false shadows for true substances.
He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.
As witnesses not of our intentions but of our conduct, we can be true or false, and the hypocrite's crime is that he bears false witness against himself. What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.
The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?