Quotes About Honesty

justice in thought, in act unselfishness and a tongue that cannot lie and a disposition ready to welcome all that befalls as unavoidable, as familiar, as issuing from a like origin and fountain-head.

If any one can prove and bring home to me that a conception or act of mine is wrong, I will amend it, and be thankful. For I seek the truth, whereby no one was ever harmed. But he is harmed who persists in his own self-deception and ignorance.

The most noble thing is to be yourself.

El arrepentimiento es cierto reproche de si mismo, por haber omitido hacer algo provechoso, dado que el bien es necesariamente una cosa útil y acreedora a que el hombre honesto la ambicione. Por otro lado jamás un hombre recto se arrepentirá de haber desdeñado algún placer, ya que el placer ni es cosa útil ni es bien alguno.

If it is not right do not do it, if it is not true do not say it.

Uvježbaj se da misliš samo one misli koje odgovaraju na neo?ekivano pitanje: ''Što ti se sada mota po mislima?'' kako bi, trenuta?no i iskreno mogao re?i o ?emu je rije?, o ovome ili onome, i tako svojim odgovorom dati izravne dokaze o tome da su sve tvoje misli neskrivene i dobrohotne, misli društvena bi?a koje ne mari za hirove užitaka ili ve?a zadovoljstva, za suparništvo, zlo?u, sumnju ili sve ono što bi, priznanjem, izvuklo rumen na obraze.

Righteous people are those who do what is right.

I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.

Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.

Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.

Lucius Cassius ille quem populus Romanus verissimum et sapientissimum iudicem putabat identidem in causis quaerere solebat 'cui bono' fuisset. The famous Lucius Cassius, whom the Roman people used to regard as a very honest and wise judge, was in the habit of asking, time and again, 'To whose benefit?

What can be more delightful than to have some one to whom you can say everything with the same absolute confidence as to yourself?

Esse quam videri - To be, rather than to seem (to be)

Mea mihi conscientia pluris est quam omnium sermo

Das also ist keine Freundschaft, dass, wenn der eine die Wahrheit nicht hören will, der andere zum Lügen bereit ist.

Age nunc, refer animum, sis, ad veritatem, [...].

A hatred not shown and which remains concealed, is to be feared more than that which is openly voiced.

Breve tempus ætatis satis est longum ad bene honesteque vivendum

Denn wirklich tugendhaft wollen nicht so Viele sein als scheinen.

Dispense with the doctor by being temperate; the lawyer by keeping out of debt; the demagogue, by voting for honest men; and poverty, by being industrious.

Here's champagne for our real friends, and real pain for our sham friends.

A truth should exist, it should not be used like this. If I love you is that a fact or a weapon?

The truth can cause a lot of trouble for those who are not supposed to know it.

The truth is seldom welcome, especially at dinner.