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• The weakling and the coward cannot be saved by honesty alone; but without honesty the brave and able man is merely a civic wild beast who should be hunted down by every lover of righteousness. No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Community, Brave

  "The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses" by Theodore Roosevelt. "The Eighth and Ninth Commandments in Politics", 1910.

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• The badge of honesty is simplicity.

  Novalis

  Simplicity, Badges

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• There is no twilight zone of honesty in business. A thing is right or it's wrong. It's black or it's white.

  John Francis Dodge

  Twilight, White, Black

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• Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.

  Tryon Edwards

  Brother, Truth, Twins

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.37, Ravenio Books

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  It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

  John Steinbeck

  Love, Wisdom, Appreciation

  John Steinbeck (1963). “The short novels of John Steinbeck: Tortilla Flat, The red pony, Of mice and men, The moon is down, Cannery Row, The pearl”

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• Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Witty, Being Yourself

  Intentions "The Critic as Artist" pt. 2 (1891)

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• Does what's happened keep you from acting with justice, generosity, self-control, sanity, prudence, honesty, humility, straightforward ness, and all other qualities that allow a person's nature to fulfill itself? So remember this principle when something threatens to cause you pain: the thing itself was no misfortune at all; to endure it and prevail is great good fortune.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Pain, Humility, Self

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.48, Modern Library

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• Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

  Salvador Dali

  Cheating, Art, Drawing

  "People" Magazine, September 27, 1976.

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• No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Memories, Liars, Lying

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  Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Trust, Spiritual

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• Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.

  Ed McMahon

  Army, Important, Finals

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• Most of us are honest all the time, and all of us are honest most of the time.

  Charles Mathias

  Politics, Honest

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• Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.

  Josh Billings

  Wisdom, Truth, World

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• The trite saying that 'honesty is the best policy' has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The seems to be true. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.

  Robert E. Lee

  Real, Men, Criticism

  "Memoirs of Robert E. Lee". Book by A. L. Long, 1886.

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• Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Confidence, Integrity, Light

  Michel de Montaigne (1907). “The Essays”

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• Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Enlightening, Being Honest

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• The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Men, Air, Saint

  "Many Thoughts of Many Minds" edited by Henry Southgate, (p. 290), 1862.

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• Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

  Isaac Asimov

  Technology, Computer, Favourite

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Inspirational, Hurt, Truth

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.412, Wordsworth Editions

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  Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

  Franz Kafka

  Inspirational, Fashion, Truth

  Franz Kafka (1995). “The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories”, Random House LLC

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• Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.

  Oscar Wilde

  Appearance

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• What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Relationship, Yoga, Heart

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• From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

  Immanuel Kant

  Truth, Fear, Philosophical

  "Idea for a General History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose" by Immanuel Kant, (Proposition 6), 1784.

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• The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Life, Fake People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Inspirational, Hypocrite, People

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