There's one way to find out if a man is honest: ask him; if he says yes, you know he's crooked.
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For time alone shews a man's honesty,
But in one day you may discern his guilt.
Men will not cease to be dishonest, merely because their dishonesties have been revealed or because they have discovered their own deceptions. Wherever men hold unequal power in society, they will strive to maintain it. They will use whatever means are most convenient to that end and will seek to justify them by the most plausible arguments they are able to devise.
When a man really tells the truth, the first truth he tells is that he himself is a liar.
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins
As honest as you can expect a man to be in a world where its going out of style.
If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.
La vérité d’un homme c’est d’abord ce qu’il cache.
Men will not cease to be dishonest, merely because their dishonesties have been revealed or because they have discovered their own deceptions. Wherever men hold unequal power in society, they will strive to maintain it.
If he's honest, he'll steal; if he's human, he'll murder; if he's faithful, he'll deceive.
You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.
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