"What is truth?"
The truth is a transcendent virtue which enters into all well-ordered human affairs and, according to the diversity of these, assumes different names. In the schools it s called science, in speech veracity, in conduct frankness, in conversation sincerity, in actions righteousness, in business dealings honesty, in giving advice freedom from prejudice, in the keeping of promises loyalty, and in the courts of law it has the noble title of justice.
The truth is a transcendent virtue which enters into all well-ordered human affairs and, according to the diversity of these, assumes different names. In the schools it s called science, in speech veracity, in conduct frankness, in conversation sincerity, in actions righteousness, in business dealings honesty, in giving advice freedom from prejudice, in the keeping of promises loyalty, and in the courts of law it has the noble title of justice.
From the English translation of Blessed Pope John XXIII's "The journal of a soul", quoting the text of Fr. Segneri
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