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'Honour thy father and thy mother' stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness. |
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- Aeschylus
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'Tis nobler to lose honor to save the lives of men than it is to gain honor by taking them. |
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- David Borenstein
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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. |
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- Hermann Hesse
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...nobody has the right to manipulate anybody or to impress anybody with his stronger personality, not even for the other's imagined good, for nobody can know what that good is. This is courtesy rather than callousness, for the other's dignity is thus acknowledged, or the dignity of his grief is respected. If and when he is ready, the other will of himself reach out for consolation and feel free to ask for a hand to point out the way. |
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- Imgard Schloegl
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A friend drops their plans when you're in trouble, shares joy in your accomplishments, feels sad when you're in pain. A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice--but when you don't follow it, they still respect and love you. |
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- Doris Wild Helmering
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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. |
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- George Bernard Shaw
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A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he is a worthy target for the arrows of fate. |
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- La Rochefoucauld
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A man doesn't automatically get my respect. He has to get down in the dirt and beg for it. |
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- Jack Handey
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A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck. |
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- Adam Clayton Jr. Powell
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A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity. His most gaudy sayings and doings seldom deceive them they see the actual man within, and know him for a shallow and pathetic fellow. In this fact, perhaps, lies one of the best proofs of feminine intelligence, or, as the common phrase makes it, feminine intuition. |
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- H. L. Mencken
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