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He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.

He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.

George Berkeley
Truth, Lying, Men
George Berkeley (1837). “Works: Account of His Life and Letters”, p.362

That the discovery of this great truth, which lies so near and obvious to the mind, should be attained to by the reason of so veryfew, is a sad instance of the stupidity and inattention of men, who, though they are surrounded with such clear manifestations of the Deity, are yet so little affected by them, that they seem as it were blinded with excess of light.

George Berkeley
God, Truth, Lying
George Berkeley (2015). “A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge”, p.85, Sheba Blake Publishing

Make a point never go clear, it is great odds that a man whose habits and the bent of whose mind lie a contrary way, shall be unable to comprehend it. So weak a thing is reason in competition with inclination.

George Berkeley
Lying, Men, Odds

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