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“The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.”

“Rama Nama should come from the heart. In that event, Rama Nama could become an effective remedy against all ailments. A man who believes in Rama Nama would not make a fetish of the body but would regard it as a means of serving God. And for making it into a fit instrument for that purpose, Rama Nama is the sovereign means. To install Rama Nama in the heart requires infinite patience. It might even take ages. But the effort is worthwhile. Rama Nama cannot come from the heart unless one has cultivated the virtues of truth, honesty and purity within and without.”

“Christianity excludes malignity, subdues selfishness, regulates the passions, subordinates the appetites, quickens the intellect, exalts the affections. It promotes industry, honesty, truth, purity, kindness. It humbles the proud, exalts the lowly, upholds law, favors liberty, is essential to it, and would unite men in one great brotherhood. It is the breath of life to social and civil well-being here, and spreads the azure of that heaven into whose unfathomed depths the eye if faith loves to look.”

“No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.”

“Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.”

“If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.”

“You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.”

“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”

“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.”

“To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.”

“Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.”

“To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.”

“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”

“To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.”

“This above all; to thine own self be true.”

“A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.”

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”

“I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.”

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”

“We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.”

“Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.”

“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”

“The truth is more important than the facts.”