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• Rich honesty dwells like a miser, Sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in your foul oyster.

  William Shakespeare

  Oysters, House, Pearls

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.827, BookCaps Study Guides

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• All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature

  Michel de Montaigne

  Hurtful, Good Nature

  Michel de Montaigne (1800). “Essays, Selected from Montaigne: With a Sketch of the Life of the Author”, p.124

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• There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, For I am armed so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Wind, Cassius

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 66

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• The honester the man, the worse luck.

  John Ray

  Men, Luck, He Man

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• A show of a certain amount of honesty is in any profession or business the surest way of growing rich.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Truth, Growing, Way

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• Nothing really succeeds which is not based on reality; sham, in a large sense, is never successful. In the life of the individual, as in the more comprehensive life of the State, pretension is nothing and power is everything.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Successful, Reality, Succeed

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1875). “Success and Its Conditions”, p.3

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• When men cease to be faithful to their God, he who expects to find them so to each other will be much disappointed.

  Thomas Hartwell Horne

  Men, Faithful, Disappointed

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• Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Strength, Truth, Men

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.71, Ravenio Books

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• Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Positive, Encouraging

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• An honest man nearly always thinks justly.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Thinking, Justice

  "A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern". Book by Tryon Edwards, p. 277, 1908.

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• Success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.

  Michelle Obama

  Squares, Shortcuts, Honest And Integrity

  Democratic National Convention Speech, www.npr.org. September 04, 2012.

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• For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Business, Financial, Finance

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• For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.

  Patrick Henry

  Truth, Integrity, Sirens

  Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death, delivered 23 March 1775 at Henrico Parrish Church St, Richmond Virginia, Second Virginia Convention

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• Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

  Samuel Johnson

  Education, Integrity, Knowledge

  'Rasselas' (1759) ch. 41

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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.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspiring, Success, Integrity

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• We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Disappointment, Acceptance

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• Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest

  William Faulkner

  Life, Now And Then, Ashamed

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• You can cheat an honest man but not make a fool out of him.

  Confucius

  Men, Fool, Cheat

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• A very honest woman but something given to lie

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Honest Woman, Given

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 5, sc. 2, l. [251]

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• Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.

  William Ralph Inge

  Supposing That, Policy, Supposing

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• If you don't know how, why pretend?

  Huang E

  Know How, Knows, Ifs

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• An honest man is always a child.
  [Lat., Semper bonus homo tiro est.]

  Socrates

  Children, Men, Bonus

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• What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be becoming.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Becoming, Honest

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• Everything that thou reprovest in another, thou must most carefully avoid in thyself.
  [Lat., Omnia quae vindicaris in altero, tibi ipsi vehementer fugienda sunt.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Thyself

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• You better not compromise yourself, it's all you've got.

  Janis Joplin

  Compromise

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