Quotes About Integrity

Some people just needed to be stolen from.

Giving evidence against one's employers was the first step to unemployment.

You know something, Fowl? You did a good thing here. For its own sake. Not one penny of profit." Artemis grimaced. "I know! I'm appalled!

Maak je geen zorgen, Modderjongen,' zei Holly. 'Ik hou je goed in de gaten, om te zorgen dat je op het rechte pad blijft.

I often think that an individual's character can be judged by what he considers worthy of celebration.

Artemis did not rise to the forge-a-relationship lure that Adamsson had tossed out. He did not have room in his life for yet another friend that he didn't trust.

The man was an animal. Base and foul. In a just world he would be the prisoner and Conor a free man.

Saints are not allowed to lie, not even to demons.

Mooi schot.'... Artemis stak haar de munt toe. 'Nee,' zei Holly. 'Hou hem maar. Om je te helpen herinneren... dat er diep onder die lagen onbetrouwbaarheid toch nog een vonkje fatsoen is.

Do not try to seem wise to others.

If evil be said of thee, and if it be true, correct thyself; if it be a lie, laugh at it.

Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?

If someone speaks badly of you, do not defend yourself against the accusations, but reply; you obviously don't know about my other vices, otherwise you would have mentioned these as well

Difficulty shows what men are.

Do not try to seem wise to others. If you want to live a wise life, live it on your own terms and in your own eyes.

Epictetus being asked how a man should give pain to his enemy answered, By preparing himself to live the best life that he can.

It is better to do wrong seldom and to own it, and to act right for the most part, than seldom to admit that you have done wrong and to do wrong often.

Do not afflict others with anything that you yourself would not wish to suffer. if you would not like to be a slave, make sure no one is your slave. If you have slaves, you yourself are the greatest slave, for just as freedom is incompatible with slavery, so goodness is incompatible with hypocrisy.

If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.

As the sun does not wait for prayers and incantations tob e induced to rise, but immediately shines and is saluted by all, so do you also not wait for clappings of hands and shouts of praise tob e induced to do good, but be a doer of good voluntarily and you will be beloved as much as the sun.

A city is not adorned by external things, but by the virtue of those who dwell in it.

When you do anything from a clear judgment that it ought to be done, never shrink from being seen to do it, even though the world should misunderstand it; for if you are not acting rightly, shun the action itself; if you are, why fear those who wrongly censure you?

There is no shame in making an honest effort.

If a man has reported to you, that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make any defense to what has been told you: but reply, The man did not know the rest of my faults, for he would not have mentioned these only.