"This above all, to thine own self be true"

- William Shakespeare

As many of you know, I worked 20 years in a jail.  Often times I would see inmates who could not tell the truth, or would not tell the truth, if their life depended on it.  That was always disturbing.  But what was even more disturbing was the victims.

Often times, we would get a male inmate in for domestic violence, the female being the victim.  Before we could even get the inmate booked in, the female victim was their wanting to get him out of jail.  They would say things like "He didn't mean it", "I love him", or even "I deserved it".  Thankfully, most of the time, the domestic violence charge meant they were unable to bond out of jail until seen by the judge.

This saying says to be true to yourself.  Don't mislead yourself.  In the cases I described above, those victims were operating on pure emotion and often times were telling themselves a story that was not true; they were misleading themselves.