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Quote by Nicholas Boileau
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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Ease and honor are seldom bedfellows. – Proverb

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

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It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it werent for his honor, he and the others would have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I didnt fight with honor… I fought to win. – Orson Scott Card

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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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If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it. – Epictetus

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