Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion,

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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Honor is the reward of virtue. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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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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Tis nobler to lose honor to save the lives of men than it is to gain honor by taking them. – David Borenstein

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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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