Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest man to do.
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It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.
The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.
All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.
Real men know how to listen, and real men know how to be honest.
He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.
We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.
It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.
An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.
Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.
If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.