Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.

If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.

I am careful about my conduct because I know this cause requires clean men.

I myself have constantly refused to print anything that might countenance vice or promote immorality, though … I might have gotten much money.

All you should try to do is behave with honour. If you can. At all times.

This world is always working against a sense of honor, cleanliness, integrity.

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

It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.

I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.

If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.

Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.

All my life I have been taught to take the high road and never to dignify salacious or false accusations and I have been taught never, never to lie.

Though I be poor, I'm honest.

Once you get rid of integrity the rest is a piece of cake.

Morals are private. Decency is public.

I consider myself to be very correct and proper: an upright citizen.

Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.

The greatest want of the world is the want of men - men who will not be bought or sold; men who in their inmost souls are true and honest; men who do not fear to call sin by its right name; men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole; men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall.

The just man walks in his integrity

We ought never to do wrong when anyone is looking.

Truth is more praiseworthy than power.

Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character.

I cannot tolerate immorality.