Democritus Quotes

To do no evil is good, to intend none better.

To have done no man a wrong...to walk and live, unseduced, within arm's length of what is not your own, with nothing between your desire and its gratification but the invisible law of rectitude-this is to be a man.

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

It's obviously a lot harder to try and be a good guy than it is to be a bad guy. The world is a fundamentally evil place, it seems like. So in order to be a good person, you have to fight temptation and vice.

Power is not alluring to pure minds.

Being against evil doesn't make you good.

A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast.

Throughout my life, I have always tried to do what is right.

Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.

A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

The walls of that grand edifice called a good character have to be worked at during life.

Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.

Character is much easier kept than recovered.

The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.

I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.

I don't think lying has any ultimate justification. I don't think it ever leads to anything positive. The good fight to have is not to lie. That's one of the challenges in a way.

An honest man's the noblest work of God.

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

There are more honest people and more good people than there are thieves and bad people. It's just always been that way.

Integrity is the core of our character. Without integrity, we have a weak foundation upon which to build other Christlike characteristics.

If I wanted to do wrong, I could not.

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses.