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"There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending."
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"Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it."
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"Honor and shame from no condition rise
Act well your part: there all the honor lies."
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"Teachers who educate children deserve more honor than parents who merely gave them birth; for bare life is furnished by the one, the other ensures a good life."
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"Treat your enemies with courtesy, and you'll see how valuable it really is. It costs little but pays a nice dividend: those who honor are honored. Politeness and a sense of honor have this advantage: we bestow them on others without losing a thing."
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"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave."
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"Integrity can neither be lost nor concealed nor faked nor quenched nor artificially come by nor outlived nor, I believe, in the long run denied."
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"Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time."
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"Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community."
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"Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession."
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"Good words shall gain you honor in the marketplace, but good deeds shall gain you friends among men. "
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"Who sows virtue reaps honor."
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"Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical."
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"Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable. If somebody around you or your family does not understand it, then that's their problem. But if you do have a passion, an honest passion, just do it."
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"It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them."
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"You cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and honor away without abandoning the qualities they express."
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"Honor puts us under an obligation as binding as necessity is for other people."
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"A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others. "
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"Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud. "
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"Let the honor of thy fellow be as dear to thee as thine own. "
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