Brewer's: Amicus Plato, sed magis amica Veritas

(Plato I love, but I love Truth more) A noble dictum attributed to Aristotle, but certainly a very free translation of a phrase in the Nicomachean Ethics (“Where both are friends, it is right to prefer Truth”)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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