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Truly, to tell lies is not honorable but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonorably is pardonable.

– Sophocles

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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.

– Hermann Hesse

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Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.

– Henry Clay

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It is one thing to decry the rat race...that is the good and honorable work of moralists. It is quite another thing to quit the rat race, to drop out, to refuse to run any further--that is the work of the individualist. It is offensive because it is impolite it makes the rebuke personal the individualist calls not his or her behavior into question, but mine.

– Paul Gruchow

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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

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Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him.

– Armand Jean du Plessis Richelieu

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