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3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 3. Value of Truth

21356	Piety requires us to honour truth above our friends [Aristotle]
	Full Idea: While both are dear, piety requires us to honour truth above our friends.
	From: Aristotle (Nicomachean Ethics [c.334 BCE], 1096a16)
	A reaction: Interesting that 'piety' requires it. Piety doesn't figure much in Aristotle. He has just been talking about Platonic Forms. It would be an odd person who sacrificed a friendship for a trivial truth.