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"There is a vast difference between innocence and stupidity."
"Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue."
"Innocence once lost can never be regained."
"Summer has come and passed The innocent can never last."
"Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice."
"I'm innocent in my head, like a baby born dead."
"… Honour … remains awake in us like a last lamp in a temple that has been laid to waste."
"If you do not protect your own honor, the crows will peck at your flesh."
"Duty, Honor, Country"
"Honor is only a label they use for what they want you to do. Chernon. They want you to stay, so they call staying honorable."
"A man is honorable in proportion to the personal risks he takes for his opinion."
"I tell you what. Let’s drink to the one thing that never changes, to the one permanent part of a man’s life...honor, indeed. Burglar proof, weather proof, fool proof, one hundred-proof! Honor. Everything else is subject to the... powers that be. To the caprices of often inferior men. But your honor is your own, inviolate. So then- to honor."
"Honours ought to come from merit, and from merit alone."
"Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth."
"For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast."
"I had rather crack my sinews, break my back, Than you should such dishonour undergo."
"And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, So honour peereth in the meanest habit."
"Mine honor is my life; both grow in one; Take honor from me, and my life is done: Then, dear my liege, mine honor let me try; In that I live, and for that I will die."
"Let none presume To wear an undeserv'd dignity. O, that estates, degrees and offices Were not deriv'd corruptly, and that clear honour Were purchas'd by the merit of the wearer!"
"Thou art a fellow of a good respect; Thy life hath had some smatch of honour in it."
"For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men."
"It yearns me not, if men my garments wear; Such outward things dwell not in my desires: But, if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive."
"Well, 'tis no matter; honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off, when I come on? how then? Can honour set to a leg? no: or an arm? no: or take away the grief of a wound? no: Honour hath no skill in surgery, then? no. What is honour? a word. What is that word honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no. Is it insensible, then? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? no. Why? detraction will not suffer it. Therefore, I'll none of it. Honour is a mere scutcheon; and so ends my catechism."
"And pluck up drowned honour by the locks."
"Methinks it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale-fac'd moon."
"For he's honourable And doubling that, most holy."
"If I lose mine honour, I lose myself; better I were not yours Than yours so branchless."
"A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour."
"Honours thrive, When rather from our acts we them derive Than our foregoers."
"See that you come Not to woo honour, but to wed it."
"Nec multis verbis nec circumitu longo, quod sit summum bonum, colliges1; digito, ut ita dicam, demonstrandum est nec in multa spargendum. Quid enim ad rem pertinet in particulas illud diducere, cum possis dicere: summum bonum est, quod honestum est? Et quod magis admireris: unum bonum est, quod honestum est, cetera falsa et bona sunt. Hoc si persuaseris tibi et virtutem adamaveris, amare enim parum est, quicquid illa contigerit, id tibi, qualecumque aliis videbitur, faustum felixque erit. Et torqueri, si modo iacueris ipso torquente securior, et aegrotare, si non male dixeris fortunae, si non cesseris morbo, omnia denique, quae ceteris videntur mala, et mansuescent et in bonum abibunt, si super illa eminueris."
"It is never easy to give honor where great honor is due."
"A bon entendeur ne faut qu'un parole."
"To die with honour, when one can no longer live with honour."
"Honour and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honour lies."
"Are you not ashamed that you give your attention to acquiring as much money as possible, and similarly with reputation and honor, and give no attention or thought to truth and understanding and the perfection of your soul?"
"Yea, much more those that seem to be the more feeble members of the body, are more necessary. And such as we think to be the less honourable members of the body, about these we put more abundant honour; and those that are our uncomely parts, have more abundant comeliness. But our comely parts have no need [...]"
"Honor is what a man owns...."
"I will be forced to sink [the US ships], because even if I have one ship left I will proceed with the bombardment. Spain, the Queen and I prefer honour without ships than ships without honour."
"In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them."
"… during the time that the aristocracy was dominant, the concepts honour, loyalty, etc. were dominant, during the dominance of the bourgeoisie the concepts freedom, equality, etc."
"Chose disgrace where obedience did not bring honour"
""Duty, Honor, Country" — those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying point to build courage when courage seems to fail, to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith, to create hope when hope becomes forlorn."
"All honour comes from God, said Homer of old; he spoke exactly like St Paul, without having plagiarized him. One thing certain is that man cannot impart that indefinable characteristic that is called dignity."
"I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honor more."
"We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst."
""Oh Lord! How many of these you surely have spilt over the world, who suffer for the black so-called honour what they would not suffer for you!" (Lázaro) [...] "I make you know that I am, as you see, a squire; but, by God!, if Ï meet the count on the street and he does not fully take off his hat before me, next time I will know to enter a house, simulating to have some business there, or cross to another street, if there is one, before he reaches me, so that I will not take off mine. That a hidalgo does not owe anything to anybody but God and the king, nor it is proper, being a good man, to lose a comma of care in regarding himself highly." (The Squire)"
"Before gray hair you should rise up, and you must show honor to an older man, and you must be in fear of your God. I am Jehovah."
"Whoever appeals to the law against his fellow man is either a fool or a coward. Whoever cannot take care of himself without that law is both. For a wounded man shall say to his assailant, "If I live, I will kill you. If I die, you are forgiven." Such is the rule of honor."
"πῶς δύνασθε ὑμεῖς πιστεῦσαι, δόξαν παρὰ ἀλλήλων λαμβάνοντες, καὶ τὴν δόξαν τὴν παρὰ τοῦ μόνου Θεοῦ οὐ ζητεῖτε;"