Whether we are describing a king, an assassin, a thief, an honest man, a prostitute, a nun, a young girl, or a… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
One of the things I love most about Martin Luther King is that he was willing to sacrifice his popularity in favor… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
A man should know about himself two or three things: whether he is a coward; whether he is an honest man or… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled overnight, for certainty and uniformity are gains not lightly sacrificed.… — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
Human nature is so weak that the honest men who have no religion make me fret with their perilous virtue, as rope-dancers… — Francis de Gaston, Chevalier de Levis Copy Share Image
Why does corruption in government always surprise us? Why do we expect anything else from it? Government is organized force. It takes… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, repute possesses you when you have taken… — Charles Edward Montague Copy Share Image
It is more or less rude to scorn indiscriminately all kinds of praise; we ought to be proud of that which comes… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
“Suppose after all that death does end all. Next to eternal joy, next to being forever with those we love and those… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“I mind how I said to you once that there is a price for being good the same as for being bad;… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“You’re cut out for failure, and you know it. Though you’re capable of being a son-of-a-bitch, you’re not quite ruthless enough to… — John Williams Copy Share Image
“I've seen a rich man beg, I've seen a good man sin I've seen a tough man cry, I've seen a loser… — Everlast Copy Share Image
“The only way to avoid falling prey to the perils of confusion is to never be confused about what you are. If… — Vaseem Khan Copy Share Image
“Sometimes things don't go, after all, from bad to worse. Some years, muscadel faces down frost; green thrives; the crops don't fail,… — Sometimes by Sheenagh Pugh Copy Share Image
“He turned from the sight of human ignorance and human fate and the sea eating the ground we stand on, which, had… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“People in Sicily were unsure which possible scenario was worse: that a judge entrusted with the most delicate mafia cases had sold… — Alexander Stille Copy Share Image
With a woman, always make good use of a secret. She will be proportionally grateful to you, like a scoundrel who grants… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
When an honest man, honestly mistaken, comes face-to-face with undeniable and irrefutable truth, he is faced with one of two choices, he… — Amicus Solo Copy Share Image
There is no more light in a genius than in any other honest man - but he has a particular kind of… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
The trite saying that 'honesty is the best policy' has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The seems… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
The insincerity of man-all men are liars, partial or hiders of facts, half tellers of truths, shirks, moral sneaks. When a merely… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is almost impossible to be a doctor and an honest man, but it is obscenely impossible to be a psychiatrist without… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
“The president’s title as proposed by the senate was the most superlatively ridiculous thing I ever heard of. It is a proof… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“XII. If there pushed any ragged thistle-stalk Above its mates, the head was chopped, the bents Were jealous else. What made those… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
When a sixth of the population of a nation which has undertaken to be the refuge of liberty are slaves, and a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Ignorant men imagine that dishonesty is a short cut to prosperity. July Twenty-First. HONESTY is the surest way to success. The clay… — James Allen Copy Share Image
“Besides, they have put too high a price on harmony; we can’t afford to pay so much for admission. And therefore I… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
In my acquaintance with John Rawls, I found him to be a simple and honest man, who just by chance also happened… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
“Daughter! Get you an honest Man for a Husband, and keep him honest. No matter whether he is rich, provided he be… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I know this well, that if one thousand, if one hundred, if ten men whom I could name,--if ten honest men only,--ay,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Do not forget, do not ever forget, that you have promised me to use the money to make yourself an honest man.'… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Of the various executive abilities, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow-citizens in the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but the… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
“The offerings of Machiavelli (1469–1527), Guicciardini (1483–1540), La Rochefoucauld (1613–80) and La Bruyère (1645–96) give us an indication of the manoeuvres that… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Those who either from imprudence or want of sagacity avoid doing so, are always overwhelmed with servitude and poverty; for faithful servants… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Where the principle of difference [between political parties] is as substantial and as strongly pronounced as between the republicans and the monocrats… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The world is going to turn upside down in a way that the honest man will live uncomfortably -- while the dishonest… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
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