Quotes about Integrity

Be content to seem what you really are.

When things lay claim to our trust—to lay them bare and see how pointless they are, to strip away the legend that encrusts them.

What art and profession soever thou hast learned, endeavour to affect it, and comfort thyself in it; and pass the remainder of thy life as one who from his whole heart commits himself and whatsoever belongs unto him, unto the gods: and as for men, carry not thyself either tyrannically or servilely towards any.

The best kind of revenge is, not to become like unto them.

Fight to be the person philosophy tried to make you. Revere the

Suppose someone despises me. That's their concern, not mine. My concern is to live in harmony with nature and reason, so that my actions won't be worthy of contempt.

Make no difference in doing thy duty whether thou art shivering or warm, drowsy or sleep-satisfied, defamed or extolled, dying or anything else. For the act of dying too is one of the acts of life. So it is enough in this also to get the work in hand done well.

The most noble thing is to be yourself.

There is nothing more shameful than perfidious friendship.

The best revenge is to be unlike your enemy.

From Alexander the Platonist, not to say to anyone often or without necessity, nor write in a letter, I am too busy, nor in this fashion constantly plead urgent affairs as an excuse for evading the obligations entailed upon us by our relations towards those around us.

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