Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

Topics: Dishonesty Quotes, Honesty Quotes

Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.

Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than...

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than...

Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul

Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is...

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is...

For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the...

For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the...

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.

There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.

There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the...

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the...

To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to...

To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to...

He was a wise man who invented beer.

He was a wise man who invented beer.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being...

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being...

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till...

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till...

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is...

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is...

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first...

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first...

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and...

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and...

He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods...

He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods...