Of all crafts, to be an honest man is the master-craft.

More proverbs about Morality

• Crafty evasions save not the truth. Clever dodging and indirect answers ultimately fail to conceal what is genuinely real.
• Creditors have better memories than debtors. Those owed money recall their claims far more vividly than those owing it wish to remembe…
• The crow thinks her own bird fairest. Parents naturally believe their children excel above all others, blinding them to objecti…
• A bad custom is like a good cake, better broken than kept. Harmful habits deteriorate further if preserved, but improve immediately when deliberatel…
• It is as good to be in the dark as without light. Darkness without awareness of it equals blindness; ignorance becomes comfortable when une…
• A dark man's a jewel in a fair woman's eye. Beauty standards flip based on contrast; what seems ordinary gains value through its rari…