Yes, but the pains that come from not compromising your integrity are growing pains. They're similar to the pains that come from working out, but instead of growing muscles, they grow courage.

Virtue is in the middle way. Buddhism and Greek/Roman philosophy came to the exact same conclusion.

Buddhism identifies that the source of suffering is attachment. But simultaneously it also defines truth has a fundamental value.

Buddha, like the Greek philosophers, define virtue as the middle way between everything.