Quotes About Integrity

Un gentleman, c'est quelqu'un qui sait jouer de la cornemuse et qui n'en joue pas.

In the end, only the truth will survive.

It is the untrustworthy man who distrusts others, because he judges them by himself.

If a thing could not be accomplished honestly, probably it wasn't worth accomplishing at all.

Your teacher didn't lie to you. A centaur never lies. He merely edited his information, on orders from the King, so as not to force on the impressionable minds of children things their parents did not want them to hear. Education has ever been thus.

A man is only the man he seems to be. Inside, where no one sees, he may be a mass of gnawing worms of doubt and ire and grief. ... No challenge is easy. The measure of the challenge a man rises to at need is the measure of the man.

Be the person your dog thinks you are.

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

Love is the pursuit of the whole.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.

No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.

Men of Athens, I honor and love you; but I shall obey God rather than you, and while I have life and strength I shall never cease from the practice and teaching of philosophy... Understand that I shall never alter my ways, not even if I have to die many times.

He feels particularly ashamed if ever he is seen by his lovers to be invovled in something dishonourable.

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

He could not harm me, for I do not think it is permitted that a better man be harmed by a worse

But Above all things truth beareth away the victory

let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly.

it's better in fact to be guilty of manslaughter than of fraud about what is fair and just.

If it were necessary either to do wrong or to suffer it, I should choose to suffer rather than do it.

There is no such thing as a lover's oath.

I prefer nothing, unless it is true.

On the virtuous man] He combines the highest, lowest and middle chords in complete harmony within himself.