Honest man Quote by Giacomo Casanova Download Open image ““In fact, I do not believe there is an honest man alive without some pretension,”” — Giacomo Casanova ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Honest man
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“Modern man, instead of attempting to raise himself to truth, seeks to drag truth down to his own level.” — René Guénon Copy Share Image
“Honest things, like honest men, do not have to explain themselves so openly. What must first be proved is worth little.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“There are moments in life that one certainly believes he is alive.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world.” — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“he was a sincere man who believed in everything he said, even if it was a lie, which makes him not so different from… — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
“Trust no truth offered by man, for how can he know truth when his heart is full of lies.” — Val Edward Simone Copy Share Image
“To believe all men honest is folly. To believe none is something worse.” — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Oh, I know it today: nothing in the world is more repugnant to a man than following the path that leads him to himself!… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.” — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read. — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for a good reason, and… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
“faith must believe without discussion, and the stronger it is, the more it keeps silent.” — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
“Oh, cruel ennui! It must be by mistake that those who have invented the torments of hell have forgotten to ascribe thee the first… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent upon education,… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becomes a slave the… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes stale, for… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
The spirit of rebellion is present in every great city, and the great task of wise government is to keep it dormant, for if… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living. — Moliere Copy Share Image
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Humanity is not perfect in any fashion; no more in the case of evil than in that of good. The criminal has his virtues,… — Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Copy Share Image
There are courageous and honest men enough in both sections to fight. There is no question of courage involved. The people of both sections… — Robert Toombs Copy Share Image
An honest man is all right even if he's an idiot...but a crook must have brains. — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
“As far as I could tell, he earned his hundred thousand a year by wandering the hallway with a Styrofoam cup of coffee, smiling… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
“What honest man was never in his life without sustenance? And what human being has ever seen as the years pass his hopes, plans,… — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image