Truthfulness
The work is a hasty compilation made from notes jotted down in the tent or during a journey. If Caesar made mistakes in the respect of truthfulness, it was rather by omission than by commission. Things that the Romans might not like to hear he did not mention; for example, there is no allusion to the considerable fortune that he acquired by plunder. Nonetheless, the work is, apart from a certain bias, a paradigm of proper reporting and stylistic clarity.
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“To the man who cherishes a secret in his breast, there is a still greater secret unexplored. Our most indifferent acts may be a matter for secrecy, but whatever we do with the utmost truthfulness and integrity, by virtue of its pureness, must be transparent as light.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Even truthfulness is but one means to knowledge, a ladder—but not the ladder.”
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