The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
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I have ever deemed it more honorable and profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one.
thomas jeffersonIt is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
petrarchEvery post is honorable in which a man can serve his country.
george washingtonWithout a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive. And with it, everything honorable and glorious.
george washingtonThe ancient and honorable.
I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary. If the exigencies of my country demand a peculiar service, its claim to perform that service are imperious.
Nathan HaleThe day of the last hypothesis would be also the day of the last observation... An hypothesis displaced by new facts dies an honorable death. If it has itself summoned to its trial the facts by which it is annihilated, it deserves even a monument of gratitude.
jacob henleWere an energetic and judicious system to be proposed with your signature it would be a circumstance highly honorable to your fame... and doubly entitle you to the glorious republican epithet, The Father of your Country.
henry knoxHappiness does not fall out of the blue and dreams will not come true by themselves. We need to be down-to-earth and work hard. We should uphold the idea that working hard is the most honorable, noblest, greatest and most beautiful virtue.
xi jinpingNo evil is honorable; but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.
zeno of citiumModesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority.
ciceroAll men feel something of an honorable bigotry for the objects which have long continued to please them.
william wordsworthAn honorable defeat is better than a dishonorable victory.
millard fillmoreI know of no title that I deem more honorable than that of Professor of the Harvard Law School.
felix frankfurterA man is honorable in proportion to the personal risks he takes for his opinion.
nassim nicholas talebMen crowd into honorable careers without other vocation than their vanity, or at best their love of fame.
vauvenargues, luc de clapiers, marquis deThat above all, the friendship existing between the English East India Company and Travancore should be maintained at any risk and that full confidence should always be placed in the support and aid of honorable association.
How highly should we honor the Macedonians, who for the greater part of their lives never cease from fighting with the barbarians for the sake of the security of Greece? For who is not aware that Greece would have constantly stood in the greater danger, had we not been fenced by the Macedonians and the honorable ambition of their kings?
What find you better or more honorable than age? Take the preeminence of it in everything; in an old friend, in old wine, in an old pedigree.
No evil is honorable; but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.
So long as you are a slave to the opinions of the many you have not yet approached freedom or tasted its nectar… But I do not mean by this that we ought to be shameless before all men and to do what we ought not; but all that we refrain from and all that we do, let us not do or refrain from merely because it seems to the multitude somehow honorable or base, but because it is forbidden by reason and the god within us.
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?
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?