"Truth is a divine thing"

"THAT truth should be preferred to friends he [Aristotle] proves in this way. He is the greater friend for whom we ought to have the greater consideration. Although we should have friendship for both truth and our fellow man, we ought rather to love truth because we should love our fellow man especially on account of truth and virtue, as will be shown in the eighth book (1575-1577). Now truth is a most excellent friend of the sort to whom the homage of honor is due. Besides, truth is a divine thing, for it is found first and chiefly in God. He concludes, therefore, that it is virtuous to honor truth above friends."

~St. Thomas Aquinas: Commentary on the 'Nicomachean Ethics', Book I, lect. 6.

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"Aristotle" by Enea Vico.
Engraving, A.D. 1546; British Museum, London