1 No one can attain to truth by himself.
2 It's the real truth I'm telling you, I saw it myself.
3 You say you can't see a reign of goodness and truth on earth.
4 If you refuse him on my account, I must tell you the whole truth.
5 "The highest wisdom and truth are like the purest liquid we may wish to imbibe," he said.
6 You are seeking for truth in order to follow its laws in your life, therefore you seek wisdom and virtue.
7 do not believe in God, said Pierre, regretfully and with an effort, feeling it essential to speak the whole truth.
8 If there is a God and future life, there is truth and good, and man's highest happiness consists in striving to attain them.
9 "You know that from the very day you first came to Otradnoe I have loved you," she cried, quite convinced that she spoke the truth.
10 That is why I should really like to save him from evil and lead him into the path of truth, but evil thoughts of him did not leave me.
11 "I should never dare to say that I know the truth," said the Mason, whose words struck Pierre more and more by their precision and firmness.
12 At that meeting he was struck for the first time by the endless variety of men's minds, which prevents a truth from ever presenting itself identically to two persons.
13 I write all this to you, dear friend, only to convince you of the Gospel truth which has become for me a principle of life: not a single hair of our heads will fall without His will.
14 To Pierre's inquiries as to what he must do and how he should answer, Willarski only replied that brothers more worthy than he would test him and that Pierre had only to tell the truth.
15 I should not be doing my duty, Count," he said in timid tones, "and should not justify your confidence and the honor you have done me in choosing me for your second, if at this grave, this very grave, moment I did not tell you the whole truth.
16 How often when considering her character I have told myself that I was to blame for not understanding her, for not understanding that constant composure and complacency and lack of all interests or desires, and the whole secret lies in the terrible truth that she is a depraved woman.