I want to start off by saying that honesty is indeed the best policy. The greatest joy you can feel is when you look back and tell your children or people that you lived a honest life.
But let me start off by saying that can we really live a spotless life? a life where we can look back and say we actually did live a life without bribes and scandals, a life where we were the legends the eulogy spoke about.

An eulogy is basically a piece which speaks praises about a dead person, but how many dead people are worth the praises? The truth is even a corrupt man will be sung off as a hero even in death because people consider it rude to do so.
When dictators die, the people who take over ensure they speak well of those who the took power from.

Life is bad in some places because we are only honest in private and dishonest in public. If a corrupt politician or individual was present, a lot of people will sing praises of the person and make person feel they are trying and as such, the person won't feel the evil of what they are doing.

Half the problems caused in this world are caused by people who feel tell themselves and others lie. We think honesty is all about saying the truth, no, it is about living the truth.
A dishonest man tells himself all is fine and right even when it's bad an ugly and is willing to bribe his way to prove his point.

My late grandma (God rest her soul) once told me that "the cup you'll drink from will never pass you by" just do the right thing.
I used to feel that chances once missed won't be recovered again, but I realized that any chance that requires you to become less of yourself or compromise on your values to get to the top is not worth it because at the end of the day, you are only filled with regrets.

I realized that the right chances will come along, all you have to do is be prepared. I have learnt never to envy the ways of the dishonest man because it only comes with destruction at the end of the day.
Imagine losing everything at the end of the day because we allowed dishonesty to thrive in our hearts.

So many men have climbed the ladder dubiously and have fallen completely because a house built on dishonesty will surely crumble by the dishonest foundation, karma doesn't sleep.
It pains when me when I see people believing that they are sharp when the right word is being dishonest, it pains even more when those people are supposed to be leaders.

Don't be fooled, if you can't beat them, don't join them. Avoid dishonesty and dishonest people like the plague, the world will only grow when honesty is included in our lives.
The dishonest man finds it hard to sleep because he has to maintain a standard of dishonesty for the rest of his life, if you envy him, you court death.