Honore de Balzac Quotes

Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.

Honesty is nothin' compared to decency.

A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.

If virtue precede us every step will be safe.

Purpose ... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are even our acts.

Self-respect and a clear conscience are powerful components of integrity and are the basis for enriching your relationships with others.

Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains rather than do an immoral act. And never suppose that in any possible situation, or under any circumstances, it is best for you to do a dishonorable thing, however slightly so it may appear to you.

There is no real excellence in all of this world which can be separated from right living.

The just man walks in his integrity

The virtue involved in helping those one loves is not 'selflessness' or 'sacrifice,' but integrity.

For he who is honest is noble, Whatever his fortunes or birth.

Integrity means that if our private life were suddenly exposed, we'd have no reason to be ashamed or embarrassed. Integrity means that our outward life is consistent with our inner convictions.

Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.

You don't luck into integrity. You work at it.

If virtue goes to sleep, it will be more vigorous when it awakes.

Worthy of honor is he who does no injustice, and more than twofold honor, if he not only does no injustice himself, but hinders others from doing any.

Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.

There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules

I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue.

Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination.

It is more difficult to be an honorable man for a week than to be a hero for fifteen minutes.

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

It is no easy task to be good.

Integrity is what you do when no one is watching; its doing the right thing all the time, even when it may work to your disadvantage.