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

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If your descent is from heroic sires, show in your life a remnant of their fires. – Nicholas Boileau

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

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The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding. – Francis Bacon

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A person dishonored is worst than dead. – Miguel de Cervantes

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

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