Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Honesty
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All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature
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I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak; and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old.
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He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.
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A man must not always tell all, for that be folly; but what a man says should be what he thinks.
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God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to his own glorification
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If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of what the liar said to be certain. But the opposite of truth has a hundred thousand faces and an infinite field.
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No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.
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Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.
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It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.
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It takes strong ears indeed to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure criticism without being stung by it, those who venture to criticize us perform a remarkable act of friendship. For it is a healthy love that will risk wounding or offending in order to profer a benefit.
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An honest man is not accountable for the vice and folly of his trade, and therefore ought not to refuse the exercise of it. It is the custom of his country, and there is profit in it. We must live by the world, and such as we find it, so make use of it.
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Honesty is a question of right and wrong, not a matter of policy
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