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Honor

«He sees death in the prostitutes who have witnessed the death of honor, and daily multiply the death of love, who bleed away their own lives 50 times a day beneath the relentless stabbings of countless conjugations.»
«Honor is better than honors»
Author: Flemish Proverb | About: Honor | Keywords: honors
«Honor before profit; where practical»
Author: Gerald Barzan | About: Honor
«Hold it the greatest sin to prefer existence to honor, and for the sake of life to lose the reasons for living»
Author: Juvenal | About: Existence, Honor, Life
«Here honor binds me, and I wish to satisfy it.»
Author: Pierre Corneille (Dramatist, Poet) | About: Honor | Keywords: binds, satisfy
«Honor is but an itch in youthful blood of doing acts extravagantly good»
Author: Samuel Howard | About: Honor | Keywords: extravagantly, itch, youthful
«He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.»
«Honorable retreats are no ways inferior to brave charges, as having less fortune, more of discipline, and as much valor.»
Author: William Orville Douglas | About: Honor | Keywords: retreats, valor
«Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.»
«Honor and shame from no condition rise; act well your part, there all the honor lies»
Author: Alexander Pope (Poet) | About: Honor