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“HONOR ways did not won the WAR”
“Good men don't become legends," he said quietly."Good men don't need to become legends." She opened her eyes, looking up at him. "They just do what's right anyway.”
“The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.”
“Any weapon is a good weapon as long as ye can use it with honor and skill.”
“Our own heart, and not other men's opinions, forms our true honor.”
“Honor was never taking the easy way when it was also the wrong one. Never telling a falsehood unless the truth was painful and unnecessary, or a lie was necessary to save others. Never manipulating...”
“Kestrel's eyes slipped shut. She faded in and out of sleep. When Arin spoke again, she wasn't sure whether he expected her to to hear him.'I remember sitting with my mother in a carriage.' There wa...”
“...sometimes compassion is the greater part of honor.”
“I know at least what I am,' he simply went on; 'the other side of the medal's clear enough. I've not been edifying--I believe I'm thought in a hundred quarters to have been barely decent. I've foll...”
“When you want to talk about honor, they want to talk about money. When you want to talk about money, they want to talk about gentility. They either get the notion of honor or they don't. And if the...”
“For your fourth consoling thought, I would point out that in this venue," a wave of his finger took in Vorbarr Sultana, and by extension Barrayar, "acquiring a reputation as a slick and dangerous m...”
“Men will always create new arenas for honor if traditional rituals fade.”
“God is about to place Honor where man has placed Dishonor.”
“You will never see me publicly putting a comic down or trying to get them unbooked. If I have a problem with someone they will know. I try to do what is right and not what is easy. You will never s...”
“If keeping your word costs you the one thing you love the most, then what was it even worth keeping in the first place?”
“Never offer an oath lightly. For you pledge not only your life and sacred honor, but your peoples honor as well. To break an oath is to be without honor, to be without a spirit, and to be apart fro...”
“Honour, like insult, comes from others. It is their recognition of our worth. It is the intrusion of the social into the psychological, the public into the private. After all, others honour us for ...”
“Given the option, would you rather choose the right path, even though its difficult, or the easy route, knowing that youll be compromising your standards?”
“The best way to honor the dead was by making their passing useful to the living.”
“Winning without honor, is worse than a resounding defeat.”
