Aristotle: Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends. — Aristotle

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
κατὰ τὸν δεύτερον, φασί, πλοῦν τὰ ἐλάχιστα ληπτέον τῶν κακῶν — Aristotle
They should rule who are able to rule best. — Aristotle
Some 2,000 years ago Aristotle declared that eels were generated spontaneously f — Aristotle
Now the mass of mankind are plainly... choosing a life like that of brute animal — Aristotle
Call you that backing of your friends? A plague upon such backing! give me them — William Shakespeare
Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear, (A sigh the absent claims, the dead — Alexander Pope
Nature and religion are the bands of friendship, excellence and usefulness are i — Jeremy Taylor
Choose for your friend him that is wise and good, and secret and just, ingenious — Jeremy Taylor
Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hears — Hosea Ballou
L'espoir ne fait pas de poussière. — Hope raises no dust. Paul Éluard
Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is — Abraham Lincoln
Look at everything that exists , and observe that it is already in dissolution a — Marcus Aurelius