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Honor Quotes - Page 10

There is nothing left to me but honor, and my life, which is saved.

Francis I, to his mother. Written in the Letter of safe conduct given to the Viceroy of Naples for the Commander Penalosa the morning after Pavia in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 372-375), 1922.

I will answer anything I can with honor, but not about others.

James Redpath, John Brown (1860). “The Public Life of Capt. John Brown, with an Auto-biography of His Childhood and Youth”, p.277

Venerate the martyrs, praise, love, proclaim, honor them. But worship the God of the martyrs.

St Augustine, Saint Augustine of Hippo (2003). “Sermons 273-305”, p.21

All the honors of men in a state of sleep are as nothing.

Neville Goddard (2013). “The Law and Other Essays”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left.

Muriel Spark (2018). “A Good Comb: The Sayings of Muriel Spark”, p.21, New Directions Publishing

Honor is simply the morality of superior men.

H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.111, Vintage

Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed.

"Discourse on Voluntary Servitude". Book by Etienne de La Boetie, 1576.

Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.

Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1857). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.386

Remember that this greatness was won by men with courage, with knowledge of their duty, and with a sense of honor in action.

Thucydides, Sir Richard Winn Livingstone (1960). “The History of the Peloponnesian War”, Oxford University Press, USA