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“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.”

Ifs Men Giving Character Lying Practice Honest Ill Reports Deceit Dishonesty Honest Man

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“Lying and cheating in advertising, in the long run, are commercial suicide. Dishonesty in advertising destroys not only confidence in advertising, but also in the medium which carries the dishonest advertisement. . . . No one can be ill in a community without endangering others; no advertiser can be dishonest without casting suspicion upon others.”

Long Running Lying Community Suicide Ill Mediums Advertising Cheating Carrie Long Runs Suspicion Casting Dishonesty Advertisements Advertisers Lying And Cheating

Author:Daniel Starch

“There are some disguised falsehoods so like truths, that 'twould be to judge ill not to be deceived by them.”

Lying Judging Ill Falsehood Deceived

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Since thou wouldst needs, bewitched with some ill charms, Be buried in those monumental arms: As we can wish, is, may that earth lie light Upon thy tender limbs, and so good night.”

Needs May Light Earth Lying Night Wish Arms Ill Charm Buried Limbs Good Night Bewitched

Author:Edmund Waller

“[Nietzsche] attributes to himself an extremely vivid and sensitive instinct of cleanliness. At the first contact the filth lying at the base of another's nature is revealed to him. The unclean are therefore ill at ease hi his presence”

Firsts Lying Instinct Ill Contact Ease Sensitive Attributes Vivid Cleanliness Filth First Contact

Book:Friedrich Nietzsche (English Edition)

Source: Friedrich Nietzsche (English Edition)

“When a man has his heart in the right place and good taste, he can not only do well in politics but is even predetermined for it. If someone is modest and does not yearn for power, he is certainly not ill-equipped to engage in politics; on the contrary, he belongs there. What is needed in politics is not the ability to lie but rather the sensibility to know when, where, how and to whom to say things.”

Ifs Knows Men Wells Heart Doe Lying Ability Needed Taste Ill Contrary Sensibility Modest Can Not Right Place Good Taste Predetermined

Author:Vaclav Havel

“Consider, I pray, whether you are not renouncing all shame and sincerity to advance such principles. Because a comet appears in a group of stars which the ancients thought fit to call the Virgin, therefore, shall our women be barren, or have frequent miscarriages, or die old maids. I know of nothing which hangs so ill together! To offer such things in seriousness, shows the greatest contempt of mankind, and the most scandalous lying impunity.”

“Labor is rest--from the sorrow that greet us; Rest from all petty vexations that meet us, Rest from sin-promptings that ever entreat us, Rest from the world-sirens that hire us to ill. Work--and pure slumbers shall wait on thy pillow; Work--thou shalt ride over Care's coming billow; Lie not down wearied 'neath Woe's weeping willow! Work with a stout heart and resolute will!”

World Heart Care Lying Waiting Sin Sorrow Pure Labor Ill Woe Petty Weeping Pillow Slumber Resolute Sirens Stout Vexation Weeping Willows

Author:Frances Sargent Osgood

“Leave your bed upon the first desertion of sleep; it being ill for the eye's to read lying, and worse for the mind to be idle; since the head during that laziness is commonly a cage for unclean thoughts.”

Mind Firsts Eye Lying Sleep Bed Ill Laziness Idle Cages Desertion

Author:Frances Osborne

“He that makes his bed ill, lies there.”

Book:The Works of George Herbert: In Prose and Verse

Source: The Works of George Herbert: In Prose and Verse

“Let an ill man lie in thy straw, and he looks to be thy heire.”

Men Looks Lying Ill Straws Lying Men

Book:The poetical works of George Herbert

Source: The poetical works of George Herbert

“In late marriage alone lies the compulsion to retain an institution which, twist and turn as you like, is and remains a disgrace to humanity, an institution which is damned ill-suited to a being who with his usual modesty likes to regard himself as the 'image' of God.”

Lying Humanity Turns Religious Late Regard Institutions Remains Ill Likes Usual Modesty Twists Compulsion Disgrace God Image Mein Kampf Twists And Turns

Book:Mein Kampf

Source: Mein Kampf

“Im hopeless at telling lies. I can attempt strategic ones in order not to hurt peoples feelings, but then Ill blow it 10 minutes later.”

I Can Feelings Lying Order Hurt Minutes Ill Blow Hopeless Strategic Telling Lies

Author:Nicholas Haslam