Quotes About Integrity

Suspicion is far more apt to be wrong than right; oftener unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

Remember, when incited to slander, that it is only he among you who is without sin that may cast the first stone.

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.

Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.

On my honor, I believe it is characteristic of virtue to have nothing to do with riches!" thought he.

Money without honor is a disease

Mi-e scârb? s?-mi prostituez propriile mele emo?ii în public ?i nimic din ceea ce mi se întâmpl? nu va fi cunoscut vreodat?.

The man who hastens to tell another man that he has dropped a thousand franc bill from his pocket-book, or even that the handkerchief is coming out of his pocket, would think it a mean thing to warn him that some one was carrying off his wife.

The wife of a banker is always an honest woman, but the woman who sits at the cashier's desk cannot be one, unless her husband has a very large business and she does not live over his shop.

Fraction does not exist in Nature, where what you call a fragment is a finished whole.

An honest woman ought to be in a financial condition such as forbids her lover to think she will ever cost him anything.

Then, let every one question his conscience on this point, and search his memory if he has ever met a man who confined himself to the love of one woman only!

A virtuous woman has in her heart one fibre less or one fibre more than other women; she is either stupid or sublime.

The woman who allows herself to be found out deserves her fate.

An honest woman is necessarily a married woman.

I comfort myself with the thought that rather than live a life with a fraudulent smile, it is better to lead a life weeping real tears.

I know just how slimy people can be, and how people like that are during the daytime. They don't get slimy at night because they're drunk, they get slimy because they're already slimy to begin with. I

Creo que, a la larga, ir con la verdad por delante es lo que mejores resultados da.

Mi è capitato di vedere gente allinearsi al punto di vista altrui e mantenere segrete le proprie opinioni soltanto in nome di minimi profitti, nessuno vuole assumersi responsabilità, tutti preferiscono starsene nel mezzo, con vigliaccheria, così che le cose appaiono sempre più torbide e alla fine ci si ritrova imprigionati all'interno di una specie di rigida cornice: ho visto questa storia ripetersi all'infinito.

The only thing to do was to work steadily, humbly, and carefully, without trying to complicate things or make them other than what they were.

Especially not something like abandoning my professional standards, because that would throw the rest of my life out of balance.

I never tell my boyfriend that I'm busy when I'm not. No matter how effective they are, cheap techniques like that just don't agree with me. So it's always okay, it's always all right. In my opinion the surest way to hook a man is to be as open with him as possible.