"All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness."
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"If honesty were suddenly introduced into American life, the whole system would collapse."
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"'Honesty' in social life is often used as a cover for rudeness. But there is quite a difference between being candid in what you're talking about, and people voicing their insulting opinions under the name of honesty."
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"Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none."
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"Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies."
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"I am looking for an honest man."
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"Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth."
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"As I have said, the first thing is to be honest with yourself. You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself... Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility."
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"Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life - all areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity."
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"Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time."
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"Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken."
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"If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people."
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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."
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"To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man."
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"Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free – he is his own trap."
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"And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too."
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"You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart."
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"When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?"
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"The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance."
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"My generation's apathy. I'm disgusted with it. I'm disgusted with my own apathy too, for being spineless and not always standing up against racism, sexism and all those other -isms the counterculture has been whining about for years."
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