Quotes About Integrity

When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous.

Whoever does not believe himself always lies.

Association with other people corrupts our character; especially when we have none.

Verily, a polluted stream is man. One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.

Oh, my friends, that your self be in your deed as the mother is in her child - let that be your word concerning virtue!

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters

Man permits himself to be lied to at night, his life long, when he dreams, and his moral sense never even tries to prevent this—although men have been said to have overcome snoring by sheer will power.

Ich will keinen Autor mehr lesen, dem man anmerkt, er wollte ein Buch machen; sondern nur jene, deren Gedanken unversehens ein Buch werden.

I wish men would begin by respecting themselves: everything else follows from that. To be sure, as soon as one does this one is finished for others: for this is what they forgive last: 'What? A man who respects himself?

I mistrust all Systematisers and I avoid them — the will to a System is a lack of integrity.

The man who has come to know vice in connection with pleasure... imagines that virtue must be associated with displeasure.

The Good Person of today is incapable of approaching anything except in a dishonest way–but with innocence, a true blue-eyed virtuously mendacious way. These Good People are ruined: they cannot stand a single truth about Man.

One should adopt only those situations in which is in no need of sham virtues, but rather, like the tight-rope dancer on his tight rope, in which one must either fall or stand - or escape

Honest things, like honest men, do not carry their reasons in their hands like that. It is indecent to show all five fingers. What must first be proved is worth little.

If someone wants to seem to be something, stubbornly and for a long time, he eventually finds it hard to be anything else. The profession of almost every man, even the artist, begins with hypocrisy, as he imitates from the outside, copies what is effective.

love of truth is something fearsome and mighty.

They cast injustice and filth at the solitary one: but, my brother, if you would be a star, you must shine for them none the less on that account!

Equality before the enemy—first precondition for an honest duel.

I see many soldiers; could I but see many warriors!

And others are proud of their modicum of righteousness, and for the sake of it do violence to all things: so that the world is drowned in their unrighteousness.

unrighteousness. Ah! how ineptly cometh the word virtue out of their mouth! And when they say: I am just, it always soundeth like: I am just—revenged!

It is easier to cope with a bad conscience than with a bad reputation.

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