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"Chastity is the lily of virtues, and makes men almost equal to Angels. Everything is beautiful in accordance with its purity. Now the purity of man is chastity, which is called honesty, and the observance of it, honor and also integrity; and its contrary is called corruption; in short, it has this peculiar excellence above the other virtues, that it preserves both soul and body fair and unspotted."
"The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death."
"A bright future beckons. The onus is on us, through hard work, honesty and integrity, to reach for the stars."
"The practice of discernment is part of higher consciousness. Discernment is not just a step up from judgment. In life's curriculum, it is the opposite of judgment. Through judgment a man reveals what he needs to confront and learn. Through discernment, one reveals what he has mastered."
"Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory."
"What is once well done is done forever."
"Honor your commitments with integrity."
"In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity."
"Make faithfulness and truth thy masters: have no friends unlike thyself: be not ashamed to mend thy faults."
"The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence."
"Integrity is the thing you do when no one seems to be watching."
"As witnesses not of our intentions but of our conduct, we can be true or false, and the hypocrite's crime is that he bears false witness against himself. What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core."
"Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are."
"The responsibilities of someone in a more free and open society are, again obviously, greater than those who may pay some cost for honesty and integrity."
"It is silly to go on pretending that under the skin we are brothers. The truth is more likely that under the skin we are all cannibals, assassins, traitors, liars and hypocrites."
"The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks."
"A business is seldom if ever built up except on lines of strictest integrity."
"Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie... But rather mourn the apathetic throng - The cowed and the meek - Who see the world's great anguish and its wrong And dare not speak!"
"It is frequently said that speech that is intentionally provocative and therefore invites physical retaliation can be punished or suppressed. Yet, plainly no such general proposition can be sustained. Quite the contrary.... The provocative nature of the communication does not make it any the less expression. Indeed, the whole theory of free expression contemplates that expression will in many circumstances be provocative and arouse hostility. The audience, just as the speaker, has an obligation to maintain physical restraint."
"To me, the essence of keeping the soul nourished is obedience to one's conscience. I don't think that the soul can be nourished unless people have a strong sense of conscience that they have educated and developed and soaked in the universal and timeless principles of integrity and service. This way, the individual's soul becomes part of the universal soul of service, contribution, and making a difference."
