honesty
Found 7 thoughts of honesty
A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.
Seneca
I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
Seneca
I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
Don Marquis
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
Mark Twain
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
Walter Anderson
