"Likewise, every time somebody interjects to speak of my honesty there is someone who quivers inside me."
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"All writers on the science of policy are agreed, and they agree with experience, that all governments must frequently infringe the rules of justice to support themselves; that truth must give way to dissimulation, honesty to convenience, and humanity itself to the reigning of interest. The whole of this mystery of iniquity is called the reason of state."
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"In business sharp practice sometimes succeeds, but in art honesty is not only the best but the only policy."
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"I believe honesty comes across in music because for [most] people music isn't just something to dance to."
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"Honesty is not the best policy - merely the safest"
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"Where I could not be honest, I never yet was valiant."
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"Love thyself last, cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty."
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"An honest man, sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not."
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"Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none. This above all: to thine own self be true. No legacy is so rich as honesty. Brevity is the soul of wit"
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"Honest plain words best pierce the ear of grief."
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"Art is to beauty what honor is to honesty."
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"I will put honesty before the risk of humiliation."
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"Honesty leads to peace."
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"Maybe time would not feel as heavy if I didn't have this guilt -- the guilt of knowing the truth and stuffing it down where no one can see it, not even Tobias. Maybe I should not be so afraid of saying anything, because honesty will make me feel lighter."
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"Thank you for your honesty," Niles says. The Candor repeat the phrase under their breath. All around me are the words "Thank you for your honesty" at different volumes and pitches, and my anger begins to dissolve."
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"When I speak to you about myself, I am speaking to you about yourself. How is it you don't see that?"
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"When I'm getting to know someone, I look for someone who has passions that I respect, like his career. Someone who loves what he does is really attractive. In high school, I used to think it was "like sooooo cool" if a guy had an awesome car. Now none of that matters. These days I look for character and honesty and trust."
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"There is no permanent absolute unchangeable truth; what we should pursue is the most convenient arrangement of our ideas."
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"A man is not to aim at innocence, any more than he is to aim at hair, but he is to keep it."
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"If men would avoid that general language and general manner in which they strive to hide all that is peculiar, and would say only what was uppermost in their own minds, after their own individual manner, every man would be interesting."
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