Veracity / Sincerity: Veracity is the propensity to accept the primacy of the true or the real, thereby acknowledging that no right is superior to the right of the Truth, whereas sincerity is the inclination to accept and realize totally that which by its very uniqueness requires totality; sincerity is likewise to do what is just, and not simply what flatters, and to do it to please God, not men. (GTUFS: FaceA, The Mystery of the Prophetic Substance) The first of the virtues is VERACITY, for without truth we can do nothing. The second virtue is sincerity, which consists in drawing the consequences of what we know to be true, and which implies all the other virtues; for it is not enough to acknowledge the truth objectively, in thought, it must also be assumed subjectively, in acts, whether outward or inward. (GTUFS: RootsHC, Virtue and Way)