Quotes About Integrity

Similarly with regard to truth, won't we say that a soul is maimed if it hates a voluntary falsehood, cannot endure to have one in itself, and is greatly angered when it exists in others, but is nonetheless content to accept an involuntary falsehood, isn't angry when it is caught being ignorant, and bears its lack of learning easily, wallowing in it like a pig?

Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.

Human nature was originally one and we were a whole, and the pursuit of the whole is called love.

The worst type of man behaves as badly in his waking life as some men do in their dreams.

The evil never attains to any real friendship, either with good or evil.

We've heard many people say and have often said ourselves that justice is doing one's own work and not meddling with what isn't one's own ... Then, it turns out that this doing one's own work-provided that it comes to be in a certain way-is justice.

Socrates: I'm afraid that it might actually be sacrilegious to stand idly by while morality is being denigrated and not try to assist as long as one has breath in one's body and a voice to protest with.

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I would rather . . . that the whole world should be at odds with me, and oppose me, rather than that I myself should be at odds with myself, and contradict myself.

if you think that a man who is any good at all should take into account the risk of life or death; he should look to this only in his action, whether what he does is right or wrong, whether he is acting life a good or a bad man.

For he who is a corrupter of the laws is more than likely to be a corrupter of the young and foolish portion of mankind.

So I spoke the truth when I said that neither I nor you nor any other man would rather do injustice than suffer it: for it is worse.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

It's not from money that excellence comes, but from excellence money and the other things, all of them, come to be good for human beings, whether in private or in public life.

Eat and drink and sit with the mighty, and make yourself agreeable to them; for from the good you will learn what is good, but if you mix with the bad you will lose the intelligence which you already have.

the champion of justice [...] would be as a man who has fallen among wild beasts, unwilling to share their misdeeds, and unable to hold out singly against the savagery of all.

Those who reproach injustice do so because they are afraid not of doing it but of suffering it.

Good actions can strengthen ourselves and inspire good actions to others.

If you think that by killing men you can prevent some one from censuring your evil lives, you are mistaken; that is not a way of escape which is either possible or honourable; the easiest and the noblest way is not to be disabling others, but to be improving yourselves.

For the extreme of injustice is to seem to be just when one is not.

Yet as the proverb says, 'In vino veritas,' whether with boys, or without them (In allusion to two proverbs.); and therefore I must speak.

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

He's garbage, he cares about nothing but the truth.

I mean this: we were right to agree that good men must be beneficent, and that this could not be otherwise.