Below are the best quotes we could find featuring marcus aurelius about integrity.
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Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn’t matter. Cold or warm. Tired or well-rested. Despised or honored. Dying . . . or busy with other assignments. Because dying, too, is one of our assignments in life.
If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.
Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for something while you live and it is in your power.
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
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Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not ‘This is misfortune,’ but ‘To bear this worthily is good fortune.’
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Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what’s left and live it properly. What doesn’t transmit light creates its own darkness.
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