integrity Quotes

That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.

We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.

Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.

Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.

Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.

We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.

It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.

The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.

How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?

What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.