"Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return."
--Nicolas Boileau-Despraux
"Do your duty, and leave the rest to heaven."
--Pierre Corneille
"When I´m not thanked at all, I´m thanked enough; I´ve done my duty, and I´ve done no more."
--Henry Fielding
"Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to lose what makes life worth having."
--Juvenal
"Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it."
--Abraham Lincoln
"The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms his strength into right, and obedience into duty."
--Jean Jacques Rousseau
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