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Better to die ten thousand deaths,
Than wound my honour.
Joseph Addison1672–1719Cato, A Tragedy (1713)
Content thyself to be obscurely good.
When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway,
The post of honor is a private station.
Joseph Addison1672–1719Cato, A Tragedy (1713), Act IV, scene iv
- Virtue
It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
Aeschylus525–456 BCFragment 394 (222 Smyth), from an unidentified play. Included in Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
- Character
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
Marcus Aurelius121–180III, 7
- Character
All the greatest things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: Freedom; Justice; Honour; Duty; Mercy; Hope.
Winston Churchill1874–1965United Europe Meeting, Albert Hall, London (May 14, 1947). Cited in Churchill by Himself, ed. Langworth, PublicAffairs (2008), p. 26
- Freedom
- Justice
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882The Conduct of Life (1860), Worship
Let us be firm, pure and faithful; at the end of our sorrow, there is the greatest glory of the world, that of the men who did not give in.
Charles de Gaulle1890–1970Speech, July 14 1943.
- Courage
Politeness and a sense of honor have this advantage: we bestow them on others without losing a thing.
Baltasar Gracián1601–1658The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647), Maxim 118: (p. 66)
Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter’s honor.
Ernest Hemingway1899–1961Death in the Afternoon (1932), Ch. 9
- Art
Besides, I try to judge things for myself; to judge wrong, I think, is more honourable than not to judge at all.
Henry James1843–1916The Portrait of a Lady (1881), Ch. XVI
- Decisions
And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
Thomas Jefferson1743–1826The Declaration of Independence (1776), Declaration of Independence (1776)In context
- America
A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963Remarks at Amherst College (26 October 1963)
No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation.
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865Lincoln’s Second Annual Message to Congress (1862)
- History
I could not love thee, dear, so much,
Lov’d I not Honour more.
Richard Lovelace1617–1658To Lucasta, Going to the Wars (1649)In context
- Love
There must be a certain amount of decorum in the world, just as there must be a certain amount of light.
José Martí1853–1895Martí: Thoughts/Pensamientos (1994)