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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Famous quotes containing the word truthfulness:
“Even truthfulness is but one means to knowledge, a ladder—but not the ladder.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“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)