From our ancestors come our names, but from our virtues our honors

From our ancestors come our names, but from our virtues our honors. – Proverb

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A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man. – Author unknown, quoted by William Hazlitt

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Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names.. – Proverb

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If names are not correct, language will not be in accordance with the truth of things. – Confucius

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Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable. – William Hazlitt

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