“To thine own self be true and it must follow as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.” ~Polonious talking to Laeretes

By this, Polonious means that you need to be honest in everything you do, not only to others, but to yourself. When you are completely honest all the time, you earn the respect of a lot of people, which will greatly benefit you. No matter where you are, who you are talking to, or what its about, you need to always be truthful. Once you lie to one person, news will spread, and not only will the person you lied to not like you, but so will everyone that they told. I think that honestly is definitely the best policy. Lying only gets you into more and more trouble as time goes on. When you tell one lie, it leads to many more lies to cover up the first lie. Telling the truth might get you in trouble if you did something bad, but in the end you’ll always turn out better than you would if you would’ve lied about it.