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The truth can wait, for she lives a long life.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Die Wahrheit kann warten: denn sie hat ein langes Leben vor sich.

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Willen in der Natur (On the Will in Nature), 1836; in the chapter Einleitung (Introduction)

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by Karl Hillebrand: Truth can bide its time, for it has a long life before it.

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