"Do you suppose that I should have..." - Quote by Socrates
Do you suppose that I should have lived as long as I have if I had moved in the sphere of public life, and conducting myself in that sphere like an honorable man, had always upheld the cause of right, and conscientiously set this end above all other things? Not by a very long way, gentlemen; neither would any other man.
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More on Integrity
“Don't make a novel to establish a principle of political economy. You will spoil both.”
“Don't let your life give evidence against your tongue. Sing with your voices... sing also with your conduct.”
“Ability is all right but if it is not backed up by honesty and public confidence you will never be a successful person. The best a man can do is to arrive at the top in his chosen profession. I have always maintained that one profession is deserving of as much honor as another provided it is honorable.”
More on Morality
“The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.”
“Far more violence has been done in obeying the law than in breaking the law.”
“My daughter, there are times of moral danger when the hardest virtuous resolution to form is flight, and when the most heroic bravery is flight.”