Quotes about Integrity
Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.
— Joseph Addison
Unbounded courage and compassion join'd / Tempering each other in the victor's mind / Alternately proclaim him good and great / And make the hero and the man complete.
— Joseph Addison
There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
— Joseph Addison
There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.
— Joseph Addison
How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue!
— Joseph Addison
Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is therefore always represented as blind.
— Joseph Addison
Were all the vexations of life put together, we should find that a great part of them proceed from those calumnies and reproaches we spread abroad concerning one another.
— Joseph Addison
To be perfectly just is an attribute in the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.
— Joseph Addison
To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.
— Joseph Addison
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.
— Joseph Addison
Self discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
— Joseph Addison
Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.
— Joseph Addison