He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.
He who cheats others is a knave, but he who cheats himself is a fool.
Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.
Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.
All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.
He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.
Man is a being of a mixed nature; and, as there is no integrity without its flaws, so is there no man so knavish but that in some things he may be trusted.
A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
The truthful man is usually a liar.