If honesty did not exist, we ought to invent it as the best means of getting rich.
If we put the emphasis upon the right things, if we live the life that is worth while and then fail, we will survive all disasters, we will out-live all misfortune. We should be so well balanced and symmetrical, that nothing which could ever happen could throw us off our center, so that no matter what misfortune should overtake us, there would still be a whole magnificent man or woman left after being stripped of everything else.
If you follow only one rule, let it be this one: Be yourself. The really strong boy-girl relationships are based on what people really are, not on what they pretend to be.
If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.
It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.
It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.
Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
Look a man in the eye and say what you really think, don't just smile at him and say what you're supposed to think.
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.
No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.
No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
No one is wise or safe, but they that are honest.
No such thing as a man willing to be honest –that would be like a blind man willing to see.
Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.
Oh for someone with a heart, head and hand. Whatever they call them, what do I care, aristocrat, democrat, autocrat, just be it one that can rule and dare not lie.
On this mounting the scaffold to be beheaded: ''I pray you Master Lieutenant, see me safely up, and for my coming down, let me shift for myself.'' To the executioner: ''Pick up thy spirits, Man, and be not afraid to do thy office; my neck is very short; take heed, therefore thou strike not awry, for saving of thy honesty.''
People may or may not say what they mean… but they always say something designed to get what they want.
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