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But if it be a sin to covet honour,
I am the most offending soul alive.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Henry V (1599), Act IV, Scene III, spoken by King HenryIn context
And gentlemen in England now abed
Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Henry V (1599), Act IV, Scene III, spoken by King HenryIn context
- War & Peace
A good reputation is more valuable than money.
PSPublilius Syrus101–101 BCSentences, Maxim 108
- Money
A man is honorable in proportion to the personal risks he takes for his opinion.
Nassim Nicholas Talebborn 1960Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 147
- Risk
It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.
Alexis de Tocqueville1805–1859Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book Three, Chapter XVIII.
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain1835–1910
When faith is lost, when honor dies
The man is dead!
John Greenleaf Whittier1807–1892Ichabod, reported in Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
- Faith