Quotes About Integrity

Don't do it for yourself, do it for someone, and someday, someone else does it to you, karma's real.

If perchance a friend should betray you; if he forms a subtle plot to get hold of what is yours; if people should try to spread evil reports about you, would you tamely submit to all this without flying into a rage?

Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.

What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.

Deceived on all sides, overwhelmed with injustice, I will fly from an abyss where vice is triumphant, and seek out some small secluded nook on earth, where on may enjoy the freedom of being an honest man.

Trahi de toutes parts, accablé d'injustices, Je vais sortir d'un gouffre où triomphent les vices ; Et chercher sur la terre un endroit écarté Où d'être homme d'honneur, on ait la liberté.

A shoemaker, in making a pair of shoes, cannot spoil a scrap of leather without having to bear the loss; but in our business we may spoil a man without its costing us a farthing. The blunders are never put down to us, and it is always the fault of the fellow who dies. The best of this profession is, that there is the greatest honesty and discretion among the dead; for you never find them complain of the physician who has killed them.

I am, I fear, Inclined to be unfashionably sincere.   ORONTE

Contre la médisance il n'est point de rempart.

I am, I fear, inclined to be unfashionably sincere.

Let's leave his rank, then,—take the man himself:

It is not what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.

Je veux que l'on soit homme, et qu'en toute rencontre le fond de notre coeur dans nos discours se montre, que ce soit lui qui parle, et que nos sentiments ne se masquent jamais sous de vains compliments.

TARTUFFE. If Heaven is all that stands now in my way, I'll easily remove that little hindrance; Your heart need not hold back for such a trifle.

true heroes never are the ones Who make much noise about their deeds

That there's a difference 'twixt false and true.

To give good colour to his acts against you;

La culpa no es de los aduladores, sino del que quiere ser adulado.

If all hearts were candid, just, and tractable, most of our virtues would be useless to us, inasmuch as their functions are to bear, without annoyance, the injustice of others in our good cause; and just in the same way as a heart full of virtue

it's hard to be a faithful wife, in short, To certain husbands of a certain sort

Je veux qu'on soit sincère, et qu'en homme d'honneur, On ne lâche aucun mot qui ne parte du coeur.

It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.