A truth that spares no one is not a virtue, but a hardness.

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Telling the whole truth in every circumstance can inflict a pain that nothing warrants: on someone dying, on a child, on anyone who can no longer change their lot.
To hold to the principle when frankness only wounds is to prefer the purity of a rule to the very person it is meant to serve.
Yet compassion ranks among our duties as much as truthfulness; to set them against each other without remainder is to sacrifice one to the other without admitting it.

Therefore An honesty that allows itself no tact ends up confusing uprightness with indifference.

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