"But, guardian, may we not hope that a little experience will teach him what a false and wretched thing it is?"

It is only your pride in false things that you need to sacrifice.

But there are also things possible and impossible, false and true, absolutely.

"It shows how weak is her claim that she has to rely on a thing so false."

You don't fool yourself and tell yourself false things, like everything's going to be all right.

This false thing, which the world would call my conscience, will not permit me.

What false thing had she been forcing on him?

People are bound to think foolish, false things if we kiss and such in public.

"I am wounded because it is disagreeable to be accused of false things," he said.

I came from the financial world, where people didn't print false things.