Nicholas Boileau's Quote - Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have

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Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have

Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return. – Nicholas Boileau

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Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly. – Nicholas Boileau

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Greatest fools are the most often satisfied. – Nicholas Boileau

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Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you. – Nicholas Boileau

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Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. – Joseph Addison

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Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food. – Charles Caleb Colton

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Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Our own heart, and not other mens opinion, forms our true honor. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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