Desperaux," she said. He saw his name on her lips."I honor you," whispered Desperaux. "I honor you.
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Just because we can doesn't mean we should.
Morality and honor are not to be confused. "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.
The man attempted to salute and Renius forced himself to smile, biting back his temper at the sloppy manners. He watched the fat figure run away into the buildings and wiped the first beads of sweat from his brow. Strange that such men as that should understand loyalty where so many others threw it aside at the first hint of freedom.
Flirt with him if you want, Honor, but you're mine.
The nation that honors a dancer more than a scholar is no more a nation.
Columbus gave Europe a New World; [Alexander von] Humboldt made it known in its physical, material, intellectual, and moral aspects.
Sometimes we have to meet people where they are, Ollie. Honor their desires, regardless of out own.
When truthful knowledge is dispensed, soul growth is accomplished every time, for all parties involved, in every situation.
Exactly. Since it is morally justifiable, I have only to consider the question of personal risk. Surely a gentleman should not lay much stress upon this, when a lady is in most desperate need of his help?
This is a grave. There is no honor here in broken tools and old bones, only in the deeds of our children.
Never confuse honor with stupidity!
One man in a thousand, Solomon says.Will stick more close than a brother.And it's worth while seeking him half your daysIf you find him before the other.---The Thousandth Man
...Feel no fear before the multitude of men, do not run in panic,but let each man bear his shield straight toward the fore-fighters,regarding his own life as hateful and holding the dark spirits of death as dear as the radiance of the sun.
You are new here, so I will explain. In this land, nobility comes not from one__ fathers or a title or from the land one owns, but from one__ actions._ His voice was hard-edged, and his words seemed harsh to her. __he MacKinnon brothers are the highest nobility to those who live on the frontier__rue warriors, men who know how to fight and survive, men who put the lives of others before their own. Your family__ wealth, your title, your virtue__hey mean nothing out here. They won__ fill your belly, and they won__ keep you alive. What matters most right now is your survival. (Joseph to Lady Sarah)
Nor when love is of this disinterested sort is there any disgrace in being deceived, but in every other case there is equal disgrace in being or not being deceived. For he who is gracious to his lover under the impression that he is rich, and is disappointed of his gains because he turns out to be poor, is disgraced all the same: for he has done his best to show that he would give himself up to any one's "uses base" for the sake of money; but this is not honourable. And on the same principle he who gives himself to a lover because he is a good man, and in the hope that he will be improved by his company, shows himself to be virtuous, even though the object of his affection turn out to be a villain, and to have no virtue; and if he is deceived he has committed a noble error. For he has proved that for his part he will do anything for anybody with a view to virtue and improvement, than which there can be nothing nobler.
O Stranger, send the news home to the people of Sparta that here weAre laid to rest: the commands they gave us have been obeyed. ξε_', γγέλλειν _ακεδαιμονίοι_ __ __εκεμεθ, _ο_ κείν_ν ῥμα_ _ειθ_μενοι.[Epitaph of the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae]
Fear has no place in the lives of those who choose to be victorious.