“Honesty is always good, except when it's better to lie.”
Variant: We is always so much better than I.
Source: Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas
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“The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in the felicity of lighting on good education.”
Moralia, Of the Training of Children
Variant: The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
“Honesty is always the best policy, even when it's not the trend.”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens: The Ultimate Teenage Success Guide
“It’s always better to tell a half-truth than a half-lie.”
Source: Moon Over Soho (2011), Chapter 13, “Autumn Leaves” (p. 277)
“It is better to wear rags in honesty than brocade in dishonour.”
È meglio vestir cencio con leanza, che broccato con disonoranza.
La Sorellina di Pilone (1712), Act II, Sc. V. — (Credenza.)
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 294.
“Which is better, truth that is a lie or the lie that is truth?”
Source: The Judges