Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.
Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.
The topic of trust is an important factor in all matters of the heart - and here's why. Men lie to women. Women lie to men. And most people agree that some lying is even necessary - to avoid petty squabbles and to grease the wheels of a relationship.
All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.
I believe in trusting men, not only once but twice - in giving a failure another chance.
The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him.
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.
Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.
Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.
Inconsistencies in men are generally testimony to their immaturity.
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