Quotes About Integrity

Esse quam videri - To be, rather than to seem (to be)

But I must at the very beginning lay down this principle—friendship can only exist between good men.

Mea mihi conscientia pluris est quam omnium sermo

There is no doubt that a person who is called generous and open-handed has duty in mind, not gain. So likewise justice looks for no prize and no price; it is sought for itself, and is at once the cause and meaning of all the virtues.

Instead let Virtue herself, by her own unaided allurements, summon you to a glory that is genuine and real.

It's not by strength or speed or swiftness of body that great deeds are done, but by wisdom, character, and sober judgment.

Justice looks for no prize and no price; it is sought for itself, and is at once the cause and meaning of all the virtues. . . . The worst kind of injustice is to look for profit from injustice.

Honesty is the best policy

As for you, my young friends, I urge you to strive for virtue, for without it friendship cannot exist. And friendship, aside from virtue, is the greatest thing we can find in life.

No one can be a sound judge if he does not give due weight to convincing suspicions.

It is not merriment and wantonness, nor laughter or jesting, the comrade of frivolity, that make men happy; those are happy, often in sadness, whose wills are strong and true.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

My conscience has more weight for me than the opinion of the whole world

Das also ist keine Freundschaft, dass, wenn der eine die Wahrheit nicht hören will, der andere zum Lügen bereit ist.

a distinction has gradually sprung up between what is expedient and what is right. But the implication that something can be right without being expedient, or expedient without being right, is the most pernicious error that could possibly be introduced into human life.

These people who govern us should not be so carried away by their own political power that they turn away from peace, but neither should they embrace a peace that is dishonorable.

It is the function of justice not to do wrong to one's fellow-men; of considerateness , not to wound their feelings; and in this the essence of propriety is best seen.

The extreme of right is the extreme of wrong.

This is all that I had to say about friendship; but I exhort you both so to esteem virtue (without which friendship cannot exist), that, excepting virtue, you will think nothing more excellent than friendship.

nothing is generous that is not at the same time just.

Justice is the mistress and queen of all the virtues.

Denn wirklich tugendhaft wollen nicht so Viele sein als scheinen.

El cariño es muy traicionero. La justicia tiene sus exigencias, pero el cariño pugna por ella

Dispense with the doctor by being temperate; the lawyer by keeping out of debt; the demagogue, by voting for honest men; and poverty, by being industrious.