Might the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy be laid to heart! Might a sense of the true aims of life elevate the tone of politics and trade, till public and private honor become identical!
Many people are honest because they are fools.[Много людей честных благодаря тому, что дураки.]
If the role of an honest woman were nothing more than perilous, I would admit that it would serve. But it is tiresome; and I have never met a virtuous woman who did not think about deceiving somebody.
Honesty is the best policy.
Honest people don’t hide their deeds.
Every revolution has had its honest men. They are soon disposed of afterwards.
But until a person can say deeply and honestly, “I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday,” that person cannot say, “I choose otherwise.”
And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as an honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
An honest woman is one whom her lover fears to compromise.
An honest woman is necessarily a married woman.
