#honorable

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality. ↗

— Pindar

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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man. ↗

— Quintilian

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But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want. ↗

— Anita Roddick

#balance #create #earn #freedom #gives

The perfection of our union, especially our commitment to equality of opportunity, has been a story of constant striving to live up to our Founding principles. This is what Abraham Lincoln meant when he said, 'In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve.' ↗

— Paul Ryan

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Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised. ↗

— Sallust

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Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

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Mr. Lincoln's elevation shows that in America every station in life may be honorable; that there is no barrier against the humblest; but that merit, wherever it exists, has the opportunity to be known. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

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No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil. ↗

— Citium Zeno

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The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest. ↗

— Steven Brust

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The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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