“I stand in philosophy exactly where I stand in daily life; I should not be honest otherwise.”

Be kind and honest, and harmful poisons will turn sweet inside you. If you want money more than anything, you’ll be bought and sold your whole life.

Be kind and honest, and harmful poisons will turn sweet inside you.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

"True love begins when nothing is looked for in return."

To be kind, honest and have positive thoughts; to forgive those who harm us and treat everyone as a friend; to help those who are suffering and never to consider ourselves superior to anyone else: even if this advice seems rather simplistic, make the effort of seeing whether by following it you can find greater happiness.

The more honest you are, the more open, the less fear you will have, because there's no anxiety about being exposed or revealed to others.

No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.

This life is not such that we ought to complain when it comes to an end for us or for a loved one; rather, we may look back in satisfaction when it has been bravely and honorably withstood.

Is it not a lack of real affection that scares me away again and again from marriage. Is it a fear of the comfortable life, or nice furniture, of dishonor that I burden myself with, or even the fear of becoming a contented bourgeois?

I'm still living at least five parallel lives, honestly! I wonder about it. I have no idea how that happens.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.