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“Do not consider what you may do, but what it will become you to
have done, and let the sense of honor subdue your mind.
[Lat., Nec tibi quid liceat, sed quid fecisse decebit
Occurrat, mentemque domet respectus honesti.]”
Claudian (Claudianus) Quotes Source: De Quarto Consulatu Honorii Augusti Panegyris (CCLXVII)
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“Honor lies in honest toil.”
Steven Grover Cleveland Quotes Source: in letter accepting presidential nomination, in Stoddard's "Life of Grover Cleveland"
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“Here honor binds me, and I wish to satisfy it.
[Lat., Ici l'honneur m'oblige, et j'y veux satisfaire.]”
Pierre Corneille Quotes Source: Polyeucte (IV, 3)
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“And all at Worcester but the honour lost.”
John Dryden Quotes Source: Astraea Redux
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“Titles of honour add not to his worth,
Who is himself an honour of his titles.”
John Ford Quotes Source: The Lady's Trial (act I, sc. 3, l. 30)
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“Madame, that you may know the state of the rest of my misfortune,
there is nothing left to me but honor, and my life, which is
saved.
[Lat., Madame, pour vous faire savoir comme se porte le reste de
mon infortune, de toutes choses m'est demeure que l'honneur et la
vie qui est sauve.]”
Francis I (Francois) Quotes Source: to his mother, written in letter given to Viceroy of Naples morning after Pavia
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“Give me, kind Heaven, a private station,
A mind serene for contemplation:
Title and profit I resign;
The post of honor shall be mine.”
John Gay Quotes Source: Fables (pt. II, The Vulture, The Sparrow and other Birds)
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“Your word is a s good as the Bank, Sir.”
Thomas Holcroft Quotes Source: The Road to Ruin (act I, sc. 3, l. 235)
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“Honour is but an itch in youthful blood
Of doing acts extravagantly good.”
Samuel Howard Quotes Source: Indian Queen
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“Great honours are great burdens, but on whom
They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
His cares must still be double to his joys,
In any dignity.”
Ben Jonson Quotes Source: Catiline--His Conspiracy (act III, sc. 1, l. 1)
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“When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content.”
Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes |
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“Honor is like an island, rugged and without shores; once we have left it, we can never return.”
Nicolas Boileau Quotes |
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“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
George Bernard Shaw Quotes |
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“The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted.”
Martha Graham Quotes |
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“Be not ashamed of thy virtues; honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.”
Ben Johnson Quotes |
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“Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.”
Aristotle Quotes |
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“Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!”
Theodore Roosevelt Quotes |
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“Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.”
Welsh Proverb Quotes |
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“Don't look for more honor than your learning merits.”
Jewish Proverb Quotes |
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“Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.”
Joseph Addison Quotes |
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“The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.”
H.L. Mencken Quotes |
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