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"...each of us has to find out for himself what is permitted and what is forbidden - forbidden for him. It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard. And vice versa. Actually it's only a question of convenience. Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them; things are forbidden to them that every honorable man will do any day in the year and other things are allowed to them that are generally despised. Each person must stand on his own feet."	Herman Hesse
"A woman of honor should not expect of others things she would not do herself."	Marguerite de Valois
"All honor's wounds are self-inflicted."	Andrew Carnegie
"Any necessary work that pays an honest wage carries its own honor and dignity."	W. Kelly Griffith
"As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to ... the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible." (On the Vietnam War)"	Richard Milhouse Nixon
"Awareness is not the same as thought. It lies beyond thinking, although it makes no use of thinking, honoring it's value and it's power. Awareness is more like a vessel which can hold and contain our thinking, helping us to see and know our thought as thought rather than getting caught up in them as reality."	Jon Kabit-Zinn
"Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family."	Vartan Gregorian
"Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers."	Mignon McLaughlin
"He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young."	Joseph Addison
"He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young."	Joseph Addison
"Honor isn't about making the right choices. It's about dealing with the consequences."	Midori Koto
"I have now reigned about 50 years in victory or peace, beloved by my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my allies. Riches and honors, power and pleasure, have waited on my call, nor does any earthly blessing appear to have been wanting to my felicity. In this situation, I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot. They amount to fourteen."	Abd Er-Rahman III
"I know what I have done, and Your Honor knows what I have done. ... Somewhere between my ambition and my ideals, I lost my ethical compass."	Jeb Stuart Magruder
"I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it."	Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
"I love all beauteous things, I seek and adore them; God hath no better praise, And man in his hasty days Is honored for them."	Robert Bridges
"I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years."	Bernard Mannes Baruch
"I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all year."	Charles Dickens
"If you must choose between two paths, either of which will bring death and defeat, then choose the path wherein you die fighting for honor and justice."	Pan Ku
"It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever."	James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr.
"It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered."	Æschylus
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Abd Er-Rahman III	Andrew Carnegie	Bernard Mannes Baruch
Charles Dickens	Claude Adrien Helvetius	George Frost Kennan
Grover Cleveland	Helen Hunt Jackson	Henry Clay
Herbert Clark Hoover	Herman Hesse	James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr.
Jean Cocteau	Jean de La Bruyère	Jeb Stuart Magruder
Joe Moore	Jon Kabit-Zinn	Joseph Addison
Kahlil Gibran	Marcus Aelius Aurelius	Marguerite de Valois
Midori Koto	Mignon McLaughlin	Oprah Winfrey
Pan Ku	Paul Gruchow	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Richard Milhouse Nixon	Robert Bridges	Roger Anderson
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy	R. J. Baughan	Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Sir Walter Besant	Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill	Vartan Gregorian
W. Kelly Griffith	(John) Calvin Coolidge	Æschylus