Plato Quotes

Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.

Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.

Never lie when the truth is more profitable.

Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.

He is only honest who is not discovered.

The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying.

A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

I don't cheat.

Corruption wins not more than honesty.

Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.

I've never lied. I think I've lived a moral life.

We are men of action, lies do not become us.

Never lie, never cheat, never steal.

Most of us [members of Congress] are honest at all times, and all of us are honest most of the time.

You can't cheat an honest man.

In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted.

Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.

Character is that quality of mind which makes truth-telling instinctive rather than strange.

One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.

I don't think lying has any ultimate justification. I don't think it ever leads to anything positive. The good fight to have is not to lie. That's one of the challenges in a way.

The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.