Cato the Elder Quotes

What is the most precious thing in the world? I see now that it is the knowledge that you have no part in injustice. Injustice is stronger than you, it always was and always will be, but let it not be done through you.

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

The just man walks in his integrity

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

Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.

Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no persuasion move thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil; so shalt thou always live jollity; for a good conscience is a continual Christmas.

If I have one wish which is greater than another, it is, if I had the power, to make men do right; to make them stop their swearing, their lying, their deceiving, to stop trying to injure the innocent, and begin to be honest and upright in all their dealings with one another and honor the name of the Deity.

Because right is right, to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.

No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression.

The biggest difference between people is between those who are trying to do the right thing - whether or not they succeed - and those for whom the only question is how much they can get away with.

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

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt.

Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught.

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.

A clean and sensitive conscience, a steady and scrupulous integrity in small things as well as large, is the most valuable of all possessions, to a nation as to an individual.

The best and only safe road to honor, glory, and true dignity is justice.

Prefer punishment to disgraceful gain; for the one is painful but once, but the other for one's whole life.

May we be people of honesty and integrity trying to do the right thing at all times and in all circumstances.

If they are just, they are better than clever.

God gives manhood but one clew to success,--utter and exact justice; that he guarantees shall be always expediency.

A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.

Never lie; never cheat; never steal. Don't whine; don't complain; don't make excuses.