Honour is like a widow, won
With brisk attempt and putting on.
Now, while the honour thou hast got
Is spick and span new.
If he that in the field is slain
Be in the bed of honour lain,
He that is beaten may be said
To lie in Honour's truckle-bed.
As quick as lightning, in the breach
Just in the place where honour's lodged,
As wise philosophers have judged,
Because a kick in that place more
Hurts honour than deep wounds before.
Semper in fide quid senseris, non quid dixeris, cogitandum.
In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.
Nulla est laus ibi esse integrum, ubi nemo
est, qui aut possit aut conetur rumpere.
There is no praise in being upright, where
no one can, or tries to corrupt you.
Cicero—In Verrem. II. 1. 16.
Nec tibi quid liceat, sed quid fecisse decebit
Occurrat, mentemque domet respectus honesti.
Do not consider what you may do, but
what it will become you to have done, and
let the sense of honor subdue your mind.
Claudianus—De Quarto Consulatu Honorii
Augusti Panegyris. CCLXVII.
Honor lies in honest toil.
Grover Cleveland—Letter Accepting Nomination for President. Aug. 18, 1884. Wm.
Q. Stoddard. Life of Grover Cleveland.
Ch. XV.
Ici l'honneur m'oblige, et j'y veux satisfaire.
Here honor binds me, and I wish to satisfy it.
Corneille—Polyeucte. IV. 3.
And all at Worcester but the honour lost.
. Dryden—Astraea Redux.
These were honoured in their generations, and
were the glory of the times.
Ecclesiasticus. XLIV. 7.
Titles of honour add not to his worth,
Who is himself an honour to his titles.
John Ford—The Lady's Trial. Act I. Sc. 3.
L. 30.
Madame, pour vous faire savoir comme se
porte le reste 1 de mon infortune, de toutes choses
m'est demeurg que l'honneur et la vie qui est
sauv6.
Madame, that you may know the state of the rest of my misfortune, 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. See Aime Champollion—Captivity de Francois I. Figeac P. 129
(Ed. 1847) In Martin—Histoire de France.
Vol. VIII. Sismondi. Vol. XVI. P. 241.
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A mind serene for contemplation:
Title and profit I resign:
The post of honor shall be mine.
Gay—Fables. Pt. II. The Vulture, the Sparrow
and other Birds.
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Honour is but an itch in youthful blood
Of doing acts extravagantly good.
Howard—Indian Queen.
Great honours are great burdens, but on whom
They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
His cares must still be double to his joys,
In any dignity.
Ben Jonson—Catiline. His Conspiracy. Act
III. Sc. 1. L. 1.
Summum crede nefas, animum prseferre pudori,
Et propter vitam vivendi perdere causas.
Believe it to be the greatest of all infamies,
to prefer your existence to your honor, and for
the sake of life to lose every inducement to
live.
Juvenal—Satires. VIII. 83.
Dead on the field of honour.
Answer given in the roll-call of La Tour
d' Auvergne's regiment after his death.
Quod pulcherrimum idem tutissimum est.
What is honorable is also safest.
Lrvr—Aimales. XXXIV. 14.
Perche non i titoli illustrano gli uomini, ma
gli uomini i titoli.
For titles do not reflect honor on men, but
rather men on their titles.
Machiavelli—Dei Discorsi. III. 38.
Honour is purchas'd by the deeds we do;
- * * honour is not won,
Until some honourable deed be done.
Marlowe—Hero and Leander. First Sistiad.
L. 276.
To set the cause above renown,
To love the game beyond the prize,
To honor while you strike him down,
The foe that comes with fearless eyes;
To count the life of battle good
And dear the land that gave you birth,
And dearer yet the brotherhood
That binds the brave of all the earth.
