I'd choose truth over cake but I'd try to find a way to get both to be honest.
It's better to have a broken CD player that worked once than to never have evolved into a self-aware carbon based lifeform.
It's better to have won & lost than to have won, stopped trying, & descended into alcoholism.
People alive are better than people not alive.
Visiting Saturn sounds like a lot of fun but you will die!
The only good excuse for not succeeding is DEATH! Unless you're trying to be a ghost. Then it's LIFE!