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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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No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave. – Calvin Coolidge

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

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