Plato Quotes

Never look for right in the other man, but never cease to be right yourself. We always look for justice in this world, but there is no such thing as justice. Jesus says — Never look for justice, but never cease to give it.

Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory.

No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.

So you would rather suffer an injustice than do an injustice?

There is no man but for his own interest hath an obligation to be honest. There may be sometimes temptations to be otherwise; but, all cards cast up, he shall find it the greatest ease, the highest profit, the best pleasure, the most safety, and the noblest fame, to hold the horns of this altar, which, in all assays, can in himself protect him.

The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evil.

It is much more intelligent, more practical, to be good rather than evil.

In Survivor and Finder's Fee, it is about what you would do if you could get away with it. Survivor is about your own integrity and where you draw your own ethical and moral lines. There are no rules.

Integrity in the Moment of Choice: Quality of life depends on what happens in the space between stimulus and response.

Without Virtue there can be no liberty

Virtue is nothing but an act of loving that which is to be beloved, and that act is prudence, from whence not to be removed by constraint is fortitude; not to be allured by enticements is temperance; not to be diverted by pride is justice.

What's to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.

I'm a good person. In most ways. But I'm beginning to think that being a good person in most ways doesn't count for anything very much, if you're a bad person in one way.

The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under the false touches that no eye detects but his own, are worn as lightly as mere trimmings when once the actions have become a lie.

Integrity is important in building relationships. And is the foundation upon which many other qualities for success are built, such as respect, dignity, and trust.

There is no greater wealth than Virtue,And no greater loss than to forget it.

To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue.

Integrity means always doing what is right and good, regardless of the immediate consequences.

Who would not rather be the sufferer than the defrauder?

Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.

No public man can be just a little crooked. There is no such thing as a no-man's land between honesty and dishonesty.

Nothing of character is really permanent but virtue and personal worth.

Then the old man's face hardened. "What about you young man?" he asked flatly. "Would you like to get what you deserve?" Jones let that question hang in the air for a moment, then sighed, shook his head, and said "Me? I surely don't want what I deserve. I'm hoping for mercy, not justice.

Those who are most moral are farthest from the problem.

And that whole do-able/undo-able thing? Yeah. Need I point out that neither Ruth nor I have ever "done" anybody in our lives?