Quotes About Integrity

The best revenge is to be unlike your enemy.

12. From Alexander the Platonist, not to say to anyone often or without necessity, nor write in a letter, I am too busy, nor in this fashion constantly plead urgent affairs as an excuse for evading the obligations entailed upon us by our relations towards those around us.

Die Aufgabe des Lebens besteht nicht darin, auf der Seite einer Mehrzahl zu stehen, sondern dem inneren Gesetz gemäß zu leben.

Blame no one. Set people straight, if you can. If not, just repair the damage. And suppose you can't do that either. Then where does blaming people get you?

Be not whirled aside; but in every impulse fulfil the claims of justice, and in every impression safeguard certainty.

Waste no time arguing what a good man should be; Be one.

Certainly He who governs the Whole will make good use of you and welcome you into some part of the joint workforce: but just make sure that your part is not that of the cheap and vulgar line in the comedy, as noted by Chrysippus.

This is the mark of a perfect character, to pass through each day as if it were the last, without agitation, without torpor, without pretence.

El arrepentimiento es cierto reproche de si mismo, por haber omitido hacer algo provechoso, dado que el bien es necesariamente una cosa útil y acreedora a que el hombre honesto la ambicione. Por otro lado jamás un hombre recto se arrepentirá de haber desdeñado algún placer, ya que el placer ni es cosa útil ni es bien alguno.

The best way of avenging yourself is not to become like the wrongdoer.

we must not think as all men think, but only as those who live a life accordant with nature. As for those who live otherwise, he remembers always how they act at home and abroad, by night and by day, and how and with whom they are found in company. And so he cannot esteem the praise of such, for they enjoy not their own approbation.

Never esteem aught of advantage which will oblige you to break your faith, or to desert your honour; to hate, to suspect, or to execrate any man; to play a part; or to set your mind on anything that needs to be hidden by wall or curtain.

As for others whose lives are not so ordered, he reminds himself constantly of the characters they exhibit daily and nightly at home and abroad, and of the sort of society they frequent; and the approval of such men, who do not even stand well in their own eyes, has no value for him.

If it is not right do not do it, if it is not true do not say it.

Uvježbaj se da misliš samo one misli koje odgovaraju na neo?ekivano pitanje: ''Što ti se sada mota po mislima?'' kako bi, trenuta?no i iskreno mogao re?i o ?emu je rije?, o ovome ili onome, i tako svojim odgovorom dati izravne dokaze o tome da su sve tvoje misli neskrivene i dobrohotne, misli društvena bi?a koje ne mari za hirove užitaka ili ve?a zadovoljstva, za suparništvo, zlo?u, sumnju ili sve ono što bi, priznanjem, izvuklo rumen na obraze.

Sudi o sebi sukladno svakoj rije?i ili djelu što su u skladu s prirodom i ne dopuštaj da te ikakve i i?ije zakašnjele kritike i uvjeravanja odvrate od toga .Ne, ako je to bilo dobro re?i ili u?initi, onda se ne odri?i vlastita prava. Te druge vodi njihov um i oni se pokoravaju vlastitim porivima. Neka te ništa takvo ne smeta, nastavi ravno naprijed i slijedi vlastitu prirodu kao i prirodu univerzuma - njih dvije kro?e jednom i istom stazom.

Što god itko u?ini ili kaže, ja moram biti dobar ?ovjek. Kao da smaragd, ili zlato, ili purpur, neprekidno govore: ''Što god itko u?ini ili kaže, moram biti smaragd i o?uvati vlastitu boju.

And what of the notion that "trust must be earned"? Sensible though it may sound, great managers reject it. They know that if, fundamentally, you don't trust people, then there is no line, no point in time, beyond which people suddenly become trustworthy.

Righteous people are those who do what is right.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Ability without honor is useless.

Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.

Lucius Cassius ille quem populus Romanus verissimum et sapientissimum iudicem putabat identidem in causis quaerere solebat 'cui bono' fuisset. The famous Lucius Cassius, whom the Roman people used to regard as a very honest and wise judge, was in the habit of asking, time and again, 'To whose benefit?

When I notice how carefully arranged his hair is and when I watch him adjusting the parting with one finger, I cannot imagine that this man could conceive of such a wicked thing as to destroy the Roman constitution.