BE
HONEST, AND FEAR NOT
Honest people are defined as upright, honourable, moral,
ethical, principled, righteous. right-minded, virtuous, good, worthy, decent,
law-abiding, high-minded, upstanding, just, fair, incorruptible, truthful,
true, trustworthy, reliable, dependable, loyal, faithful, sincere, candid,
frank, genuine, out-spoken, , impartial, disinterested and unbiased.
The English poet Alexander Pope (1688-1744) considers an honest man the noblest work of God. The English playwright
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) says that to be honest, as the world goes, is
to be one man picked out of ten thousand.
Shakespeare also says in the play Henry VIII :“Corruption wins not more than honesty. No legacy is so
rich as honesty is also his statement. According to the English statesman Sir
Walter Raleigh (1552-1618) : It would be an unspeakable advantage, both to the
public and private, if men would consider that great truth, that no man is wise
or safe, but he that is honest.
French statesman Honore Gabriel Mirabeau (1749-91) had this
to say: If honesty did not exist, we ought to invent it as the best means of
getting rich.
Some of the causes of dishonesty are the motive to avoid
punishment, to protect oneself from harm, to maintain one’s privacy, or to protect
oneself from retaliation
Dishonesty is widespread in the world. Almost every human
being is dishonest to some extent. The least dishonest are those who are
God-fearing and believe in the theory of Karma which states that a person’s
actions in this life have consequences in the next life.
Finally, this quote: Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the
one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.
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G.R.Kanwal
30 December 2024
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