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The Renaissance5 quotes
While you live, tell truth and shame the devil! — William Shakespeare · 1597Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance. — William Shakespeare · 1611Be it art or hap,
He hath spoken true. — William Shakespeare · 1607Against my soul's pure truth why labor you
To make it wander in an unknown field? — William Shakespeare · 1594Men should be what they seem. — William Shakespeare · 1604Age of Enlightenment2 quotes
An honest man's the noblest work of God. — Alexander Pope · 1733The social, friendly, honest man,
Whate'er he be,
'Tis he fulfills great Nature's plan,
An' none but he! — Robert Burns · 1785Classical antiquity1 quote
I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade. — Menander · 290 BCColonial America1 quote
He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave. — George Berkeley · 1750Spanish Golden Age1 quote
I was so free with him as not to mince the matter. — Miguel de Cervantes · 1605