Quotes About Integrity

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Her life should always be in harmony with the most pleasing impression she should produce; she would be what she appeared, and she would appear what she was.

there was something superior even in his injustice, and absolute in his mistakes.

But I care myself if I tell fibs; I never tell them unless there's something rather good to be gained.

When I'm bad I am bad !

Besides, I try to judge things for myself; to judge wrong, I think, is more honourable than not to judge at all. I don't wish to be a mere sheep in the flock; I wish to choose my fate and know something of human affairs beyond what other people think it compatible with propriety to tell me.

But for me there are only two classes: the people I trust and the people I don't.

It is very wrong to make love to a woman who is engaged, but it is very wrong not to make love to a woman who is married.

There may be unselfish natures, there may be disinterested feelings.

It would have been impossible to carry a bad name with a greater sweetness of innocence.

That was the refinement of his supreme scruple—

galantuomo—'and no mistake.' There

grave inconvenience, they would incur. This would give a sense--which the spirit required, rather ached and sighed in the absence of--that somebody was paying something somewhere and somehow, that they were at least not all floating together on the silver stream of impunity.

Vertrauen ist das Gefühl, einem Menschen sogar dann glauben zu können, wenn man weiß, dass man an seiner Stelle lügen würde.

One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar.

Every time you come to the limit of what is demanded of you, you are faced with the same problem-to be yourself!

The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues. You can't separate them. They're wedded.

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act according to their beliefs.

They were painfully clean. But inwardly they stank. Never once did they opened the door that leads to the soul; never once did they dream of taking a blind leap into the dark.

En la juventud éramos íntegros y el terror y el dolor del mundo nos penetraron por completo. No había una clara separación entre la alegría y la pena: se fundían en una sola cosa, al igual que nuestras horas de lucidez se funden con el sueño y el dormir. Nos levantamos por la mañana siendo unos seres, y por la noche, completamente ahogados, bajamos a un mar empuñando las estrellas y la fiebre del día.

what does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?

to love or be loved is no crime. the really criminal thing is to make a person believe that he or she is the only one you could ever love.

Se houvesse um homem que ousase dizer tudo quanto pensa deste mundo, não lhe restaria um palmo quadrado de terra onde ficar.

The one thing I have insisted on with all of my friends, regardless of class or station in life, is to be able to speak truthfully. If I cannot be open and frank with a friend, or he with me, I drop him.