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A quotation from Simone de Beauvoir

It’s frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself.
 
[C’est effrayant de penser qu’on marque ses enfants rien que par ce qu’on est.]

Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) French author, existentialist philosopher, feminist theorist
Les Belles Images, ch. 3 (1966) [tr. O’Brian (1968)]

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A quotation from Marcus Aurelius

A candor affected is a dagger concealed.
 
[ἐπιτήδευσις δὲ ἁπλότητος σκάλμη ἐστίν.]

Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 11, ch. 15 (11.15) (AD 161-180) [tr. Staniforth (1964)]

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A quotation from Marcus Aurelius

A candor affected is a dagger concealed.
 
[ἐπιτήδευσις δὲ ἁπλότητος σκάλμη ἐστίν.]

Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 11, ch. 15 (11.15) (AD 161-180) [tr. Staniforth (1964)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/marcus-aureleus/2670…

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A quotation from Marcus Aurelius

A candor affected is a dagger concealed.
 
[ἐπιτήδευσις δὲ ἁπλότητος σκάλμη ἐστίν.]

Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 11, ch. 15 (11.15) (AD 161-180) [tr. Staniforth (1964)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/marcus-aureleus/2670…

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A quotation from Marcus Aurelius

A candor affected is a dagger concealed.
 
[ἐπιτήδευσις δὲ ἁπλότητος σκάλμη ἐστίν.]

Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 11, ch. 15 (11.15) (AD 161-180) [tr. Staniforth (1964)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/marcus-aureleus/2670…

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A quotation from Judith Martin

Dishonesty is not the only alternative to honesty. There is also the highly underrated virtue of shutting up.

Judith Martin (b. 1938) American author, journalist, etiquette expert [a.k.a. Miss Manners]
“Miss Manners,” syndicated column (2014-12-19)

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A quotation from Judith Martin

Dishonesty is not the only alternative to honesty. There is also the highly underrated virtue of shutting up.

Judith Martin (b. 1938) American author, journalist, etiquette expert [a.k.a. Miss Manners]
“Miss Manners,” syndicated column (2014-12-19)

More about this quote: wist.info/martin-judith/80951/

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A quotation from Wilde

GWENDOLEN: On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one’s mind. It becomes a pleasure.

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish poet, wit, dramatist
The Importance of Being Earnest, Act 2 (1895)

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☀️ Afternoon Reflection Drop

🌀 Blind Faith – Day 7: Candor, Clinging, and the Clothes Still Wet

“Doing the right thing doesn’t always feel like doing the right thing.”

✝️ Esther defies power.
📜 Jeremiah watches pride collapse.
💧 Psalm 22 cries out in honesty.
💋 Proverbs 7 warns of the illusion of control.

📖 Read the full reflection: https://substack.com/home/post/p-175522867?source=queue

#BlindFaith #Candor #SpiritualReflection #TaoTeChing #Epictetus #Buddha #DailyFaith #Proverbs #ClintWrites

A quotation from Thoreau

True Friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
A Week on the Concord and Marrimack Rivers, “Wednesday” (1849)

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A quotation from Josh Billings

To lie about a man never hurts him, but to tell the truth about him sumtimes duz.
 
[To lie about a man never hurts him, but to tell the truth about him sometimes does.]

Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1875-10 (1875 ed.)

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A quotation from Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
Essay (1841), “Friendship,” Essays: First Series, No. 6

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A quotation from Judith Martin

“Honesty” in social life is often used as a cover for rudeness. But there is quite a difference between being candid in what you’re talking about, and people voicing their insulting opinions under the name of honesty.

Judith Martin (b. 1938) American author, journalist, etiquette expert [a.k.a. Miss Manners]
Interview (2011-08), “Q and A with Miss Manners,” by Arcynta Ali Childs, Smithsonian magazine

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A quotation from Judith Martin

“Honesty” in social life is often used as a cover for rudeness. But there is quite a difference between being candid in what you’re talking about, and people voicing their insulting opinions under the name of honesty.

Judith Martin (b. 1938) American author, journalist, etiquette expert [a.k.a. Miss Manners]
Interview (2011-08), “Q and A with Miss Manners,” by Arcynta Ali Childs, Smithsonian magazine

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/martin-judith/78439/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #judithmartin #missmanners #candor #honesty #insult #offensiveness #rudeness #inconsideration

A quotation from Judith Martin

“Honesty” in social life is often used as a cover for rudeness. But there is quite a difference between being candid in what you’re talking about, and people voicing their insulting opinions under the name of honesty.

Judith Martin (b. 1938) American author, journalist, etiquette expert [a.k.a. Miss Manners]
Interview (2011-08), “Q and A with Miss Manners,” by Arcynta Ali Childs, Smithsonian magazine

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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #judithmartin #missmanners #candor #honesty #insult #offensiveness #rudeness #inconsideration

A quotation from Judith Martin

“Honesty” in social life is often used as a cover for rudeness. But there is quite a difference between being candid in what you’re talking about, and people voicing their insulting opinions under the name of honesty.

Judith Martin (b. 1938) American author, journalist, etiquette expert [a.k.a. Miss Manners]
Interview (2011-08), “Q and A with Miss Manners,” by Arcynta Ali Childs, Smithsonian magazine

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/martin-judith/78439/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #judithmartin #missmanners #candor #honesty #insult #offensiveness #rudeness #inconsideration

A quotation from Judith Martin

“Honesty” in social life is often used as a cover for rudeness. But there is quite a difference between being candid in what you’re talking about, and people voicing their insulting opinions under the name of honesty.

Judith Martin (b. 1938) American author, journalist, etiquette expert [a.k.a. Miss Manners]
Interview (2011-08), “Q and A with Miss Manners,” by Arcynta Ali Childs, Smithsonian magazine

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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #judithmartin #missmanners #candor #honesty #insult #offensiveness #rudeness #inconsideration

A quotation from Bertrand Russell

If we were all given by magic the power to read each other’s thoughts I suppose the first effect would be that almost all friendships would be dissolved.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 8 “Persecution Mania” (1930)

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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #candor #discretion #frankness #friendship #mindreading #secrets #telepathy #whitelies

A quotation from Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (b. 1960) Lebanese-American essayist, statistician, risk analyst, aphorist
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder, Prologue (2012)

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A quotation from Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (b. 1960) Lebanese-American essayist, statistician, risk analyst, aphorist
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder, Prologue (2012)

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A quotation from Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (b. 1960) Lebanese-American essayist, statistician, risk analyst, aphorist
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder, Prologue (2012)

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A quotation from Judith Martin

What we have come to, through a combination of popular psychology and expanding technology, is a presumption that all our thoughts and feelings are worth uttering.

Judith Martin (b. 1938) American author, journalist, etiquette expert [a.k.a. Miss Manners]
“Miss Manners,” syndicated column (2009-11-19)

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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #judithmartin #missmanners #candor #exposition #filters #oversharing #tmi #socialmedia

A quotation from Lincoln

Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but holding it a sound maxim, that it is better to be only sometimes right, than at all times wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Essay (1832-03-09), “Communication to the People of Sangamo County,” Sangamo Journal (1832-03-15)

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A quotation from William Allingham

To think all you say, is but candour;
To say all you think, would be slander.

William Allingham (1824–1889) Irish poet, diarist
Blackberries Picked Off Many Bushes (1884)

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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #brutalhonesty #candor #courtesy #defamation #filter #honesty #integrity #libel #opinion #politeness #slander

A quotation from Judith Martin

Honesty is a virtue, but not the only one. If you’re in a courtroom, you need the whole truth and nothing but the truth; in the living room, sometimes you need anything but. Often.

Judith Martin (b. 1938) American author, journalist, etiquette expert [a.k.a. Miss Manners]
Essay (1996-03/04), Modern Maturity magazine

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A quotation from Judith Martin

Honesty is a virtue, but not the only one. If you’re in a courtroom, you need the whole truth and nothing but the truth; in the living room, sometimes you need anything but. Often.

Judith Martin (b. 1938) American author, journalist, etiquette expert [a.k.a. Miss Manners]
Essay (1996-03/04), Modern Maturity magazine

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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #missmanners #candor #equivocation #family #home #honesty #kindness #whitelie

A quotation from Judith Martin

Honesty is a virtue, but not the only one. If you’re in a courtroom, you need the whole truth and nothing but the truth; in the living room, sometimes you need anything but. Often.

Judith Martin (b. 1938) American author, journalist, etiquette expert [a.k.a. Miss Manners]
Essay (1996-03/04), Modern Maturity magazine

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A quotation from Orwell

At some time in the future, if the human mind becomes something totally different from what it is now, we may learn to separate literary creation from intellectual honesty. At present we know only that the imagination, like certain wild animals, will not breed in captivity.

George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1946-01), “The Prevention of Literature,” Polemic

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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #censorship #creativity #freepress #freedomofthepress #freedomofthought #imagination #tyranny #writing #honesty #candor #expression

A quotation from James Burgh

If you have a friend that will reprove your faults and foibles, consider you enjoy a blessing, which the king upon the throne cannot have.

James Burgh (1714-1775) British politician and writer
The Dignity of Human Nature, Book 1 “Of Prudence” (1754)

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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #candor #criticism #disapproval #fault #friend #friendship #honesty

A quotation from Adlai Stevenson

Sacrifice, patience, understanding, and implacable purpose may be our lot of years to come. Let’s face it. Let’s talk sense to the American people. Let’s tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains, that there — that we are now on the eve of great decisions, not easy decisions, like resistance when you’re attacked, but a long, patient, costly struggle which alone can assure triumph over the great enemies of man — war, poverty, and tyranny — and the assaults upon human dignity which are the most grievous consequences of each.

Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965) American diplomat, statesman
Speech (1952-07-26), Democratic National Convention, Chicago

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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #adlaistevenson #candor #coldwar #conflict #decisions #honesty #humanrights #poverty #tyranny #war

A quotation from Josh Billings

Confess yure sorrows, yure fears, yure hopes, yure love, and even yure deviltrys tew men, but don’t let them git a smell ov yure poverty—poverty haz no friends, not even among paupers.
 
[Confess your sorrows, your fears, your hopes, your love, and even your deviltries to men, but don’t let them get a smell of your poverty — poverty has no friends, not even among paupers.]

Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Everybody’s Friend, Or; Josh Billing’s Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor, ch. 156 “Affurisms: Embers on the Harth” (1874)

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I sincerely hope that #PopeFrancis used his time with #JDVance to demonstrate true love and kindness by showing the kind of absolute #candor that one human being can show another generally only in times of great peril or #InExtremis.

Because done with the kind of empathy Francis was known for, that shit would fester with fallow-sallow-shallow Vance for the rest of his goddamned life.

I sincerely hope that #PopeFrancis used his time with #JDVance to demonstrate true love and kindness by showing the kind of absolute #candor that one human being can show another generally only in times of great peril or #InExtremis.

Because done with the kind of empathy Francis was known for, that shit would fester with fallow-sallow-shallow Vance for the rest of his goddamned life.

I sincerely hope that #PopeFrancis used his time with #JDVance to demonstrate true love and kindness by showing the kind of absolute #candor that one human being can show another generally only in times of great peril or #InExtremis.

Because done with the kind of empathy Francis was known for, that shit would fester with fallow-sallow-shallow Vance for the rest of his goddamned life.

I sincerely hope that #PopeFrancis used his time with #JDVance to demonstrate true love and kindness by showing the kind of absolute #candor that one human being can show another generally only in times of great peril or #InExtremis.

Because done with the kind of empathy Francis was known for, that shit would fester with fallow-sallow-shallow Vance for the rest of his goddamned life.

I sincerely hope that #PopeFrancis used his time with #JDVance to demonstrate true love and kindness by showing the kind of absolute #candor that one human being can show another generally only in times of great peril or #InExtremis.

Because done with the kind of empathy Francis was known for, that shit would fester with fallow-sallow-shallow Vance for the rest of his goddamned life.

From lawyer & former investigative journalist Eugenie Reich: “The 1st weeks of the 2nd Tr*mp administration have brought … shock & awe to #science. … The … #scientific #community must cease hand-wringing & align behind two strong approaches … : #protest and #candor.” https://tinyurl.com/4nh8tnp5

A quotation from George Orwell

Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.

George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1944-06-01), “Benefit of Clergy: Some Notes on Salvador Dali,” Dickens, Dali & Others (1946), opening words

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#quote #quotes #quotation #autobiography #candor #defeat #disgrace #dishonesty #failure #life #perspective #success

A quotation from Martin, Judith:

«
In its natural state, the child tells the literal truth because it is too naive to think of anything else. Blurting out the complete truth is considered adorable in the young, right smack up to the moment that the child says, “Mommy, is this the fat lady you can’t stand?” At this point, the parent rig…
»

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https://wist.info/martin-judith/73872/

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A quotation from Martin, Judith:

«
In its natural state, the child tells the literal truth because it is too naive to think of anything else. Blurting out the complete truth is considered adorable in the young, right smack up to the moment that the child says, “Mommy, is this the fat lady you can’t stand?” At this point, the parent rig…
»

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https://wist.info/martin-judith/73872/

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A quotation from Martin, Judith:

«
In its natural state, the child tells the literal truth because it is too naive to think of anything else. Blurting out the complete truth is considered adorable in the young, right smack up to the moment that the child says, “Mommy, is this the fat lady you can’t stand?” At this point, the parent rig…
»

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https://wist.info/martin-judith/73872/

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CNN: Aiden Clark’s father blasts Trump and Vance for politicizing son’s death.

Grace, candor, objectivity, humanity. 🫡

https://us.cnn.com/2024/09/11/politics/video/aiden-clark-father-trump-vance-digvid

#Grace #candor #objectivity #humanity #uspol

A quotation from Wilde, Oscar:

«
GWENDOLYN: On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one’s mind. It becomes a pleasure.
»

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https://wist.info/wilde-oscar/4187/

#quote #quotes #quotation #candor #honesty #speakingout #oscarwilde

A quotation from Wilde, Oscar:

«
GWENDOLYN: On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one’s mind. It becomes a pleasure.
»

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https://wist.info/wilde-oscar/4187/

#quote #quotes #quotation #candor #honesty #speakingout #oscarwilde

A quotation from Wilde, Oscar:

«
GWENDOLYN: On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one’s mind. It becomes a pleasure.
»

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https://wist.info/wilde-oscar/4187/

#quote #quotes #quotation #candor #honesty #speakingout #oscarwilde

A quotation from Fuller, Thomas (1654):

«
Whatever thou undertakest, so do it as if it were to come to the Knowledge of all Men.
»

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https://wist.info/fuller-thomas-1654/71297/

#quote #quotes #quotation #action #candor #getawaywith #guilt #reputation #secrecy #shame

A quotation from Fuller, Thomas (1654):

«
Whatever thou undertakest, so do it as if it were to come to the Knowledge of all Men.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/fuller-thomas-1654/71297/

#quote #quotes #quotation #action #candor #getawaywith #guilt #reputation #secrecy #shame

A quotation from Fuller, Thomas (1654):

«
Whatever thou undertakest, so do it as if it were to come to the Knowledge of all Men.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/fuller-thomas-1654/71297/

#quote #quotes #quotation #action #candor #getawaywith #guilt #reputation #secrecy #shame

A quotation from Ebner-Eschenbach, Marie von:

«
There are very few honest friends — the demand is not particularly great.
[Es gibt wenig aufrichtige Freunde. Die Nachfrage ist auch gering.]
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/von-ebner-eschenbach-marie/11745/

#quote #quotes #quotation #candor #comfort #dishonesty #flattery #friendship #honesty

"We will never sell or give your email address to anyone" is the biggest non-lie lie.

They just share everything about users at demographic level. And for the right amount of money, even user-level information, only replace mail address with another unique ID. ☹️

#business #techonology #privacy #candor