Do not veil the truth with vanity, nor conceal the truth wittingly.

وَلا تَلبِسُوا الحَقَّ بِالباطِلِ وَتَكتُمُوا الحَقَّ وَأَنتُم تَعلَمونَ

Muhammad

The Quran

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Topic

Hiding the truth Deception Truth

Speaker

Muhammad

Source

The Quran

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Statement Type

Orders and commands

Language

Arabic

Time

632 630s 7th century

Occupation

Founder of a religion Religious leader Muslim

From

Saudi Arabia Middle East

Authentication Score 1

Original Citation

The Quran. c. 630, 2:42.

Current Citation

The Quran, translated by M. A. S. Abdel Haleem. Oxford University Press, 2005, ch. 2.

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We know the truth, not only by the reason, but by the heart.

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Source
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Time
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Original Citation

Pascal, Blaise. Pensées [Thoughts]. Paris: Chez G. Desprez, 1670, no. 1.

Current Citation

Pascal, Blaise. "Pensées." Pensées and Other Writings, edited by Anthony Levi, translated by Honor Levi. Oxford University Press, 2008, no. 1.

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To kill Americans and their allies, both civil and military, is an individual duty of every Muslim who can, in any country where this is possible, until the Aqsa mosque and the Haram mosque are freed from their grip, and until their armies, shattered and broken-winged, depart from all the lands of Islam, incapable of threatening any of the lands of Islam, incapable of threatening any Muslim.

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Topic
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Language
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Time
1998 1990s 20th century
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Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.

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Inferno

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Author

Dante Alighieri
Source
Inferno The Divine Comedy
Medium
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Genre
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Statement Type
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Language
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Time
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Era
Middle Ages
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Original Citation

Alighieri, Dante. "Inferno [Hell]." La Comedia di Dante Alleghieri [The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri]. Foligno: Johann Numeister and Evangelista Angelini da Trevi, 1472.

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Alighieri, Dante. "Inferno." The Divine Comedy, edited by David H. Higgins, translated by C. H. Sisson. Oxford University Press, 2008.