The Master said, "I do not know how a man without truthfulness is to get on. How can a large carriage be made to go without the cross-bar for yoking the oxen to, or a small carriage without the arrangement for yoking the horses?"
子曰、人而無信、不知其可也、大車無輗、小車無軏、其何以行之哉。
Keep thy tongue from evil, And thy lips from speaking guile.
Truth is higher than everything; but higher still is truthful living.
O ye who believe! Fear Allah, and (always) say a word directed to the Right:
Lying lips are abomination to the Lord: but they that deal truly are his delight.
Him I call indeed a Brâhmana who utters true speech, instructive and free from harshness, so that he offend no one.
By sincerity in religious practice he obtains proficiency in it; being proficient in it he will act up to his words.
The true prevails, not the untrue; by the true the path is laid out, the way of the gods (devayânah), on which the old sages, satisfied in their desires, proceed to where there is that highest place of the True One.