“Put it out of the power of truth to give you an ill character. If anybody reports you not to be an honest man let your practice give him the lie.” IfsMenGivingCharacterLyingPracticeHonestIllReportsDeceitDishonestyHonest Man Author:Marcus Aurelius
“We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by interest, and palliated by all the artifices of self-deceit, gives us time to form distinctions in our own favor” GivingSelfFormGrowthInterestCrimeFavorsDistinctionDeceitShockedWickednessMagnitudeArtifice Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Rambler Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Rambler