Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. – Ralph Waldo Emerson Category: Integrity
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. – Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism Category: Integrity
Every human being has… an attendant spirit…. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do. – Lydia M. Child Category: Integrity
Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of tricks and duplicity than straight forward and simple integrity in another. – Charles Caleb Colton Category: Integrity
The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves. – Joseph Butler Category: Happiness
So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism – despotism during the campaign – is indispensable. – Walter Bagehot Category: War
Things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed. – Daniel Defoe, The Political History of the Devil, 1726 Category: Taxes
Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless. – Franz Liszt Category: Men
