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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However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him. – Nicholas Boileau

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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him. – Nicholas Boileau

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Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly. – Nicholas Boileau

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

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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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For one who has been honored, dishonor is worse than death. – Bhagavad Gita

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The post of honor is a private station. – Joseph Addison

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