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“Treat your enemies with courtesy, and you'll see how valuable it really is. It costs little but pays a nice dividend: those who honor are honored. Politeness and a sense of honor have this advantage: we bestow them on others without losing a thing.”

Littles Pay Enemy Nice Honor Cost Losing Advantage Treats Valuable Honored Courtesy Politeness Dividends

Author:Baltasar Gracian

“It is a wonderful advantage to a man, in every pursuite or avocation, to secure an adviser in a sensible woman. In woman there is at once a subtle delicacy of tact, and a plain soundness of judgement, which are rarely combined to an equal degree in man. A woman, if she be really your friend, will have a sensitive regard for your character, honor, repute. She will seldom counsel you to do a shabby thing: for a woman friend always desires to be proud of you.”

“There are so many ready to write (poor fools!) for the honor and glory of the thing, and there are so many ready to take advantage of this fact, and withhold from needy talent the moral right to a deserved remuneration.”

Writing Facts Poor Moral Talent Ready Fool Honor Glory Advantage Needy Remuneration

Book:Ruth Hall

Source: Ruth Hall

“He that boasts of his ancestors confesses that he has no virtue of his own. No person ever lived for our honor; nor ought that to be reputed ours, which was long before we had a being; for what advantage can it be to a blind man to know that his parents had good eyes? Does he see one whit the better?”

Knows Men Persons Long Doe Eye Parent Virtue Ought Honor Advantage Blind Ancestor Boast Ancestry Blind Man

Author:Pierre Charron

“Take the case of just actions; just punishments and chastisements do indeed spring from a good principle, but they are good only because we cannot do without them - it would be better that neither individuals nor states should need anything of the sort - but actions which aim at honor and advantage are absolutely the best. The conditional action is only the choice of a lesser evil; whereas these are the foundation and creation of good. A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life.”

Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation

“Politeness and a sense of honor have this advantage: we bestow them on others without losing a thing.”

Honor Losing Advantage Politeness

Author:Baltasar Gracian

“To renounce an honor for an advantage. To renounce an advantage for a greater advantage.”

Greater Honor Advantage Renounce

Book:The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition

“Leading with character gives the wise leader clear-cut advantages. They are easier to trust and follow; they honor commitments and promises; their words and behavior match; they are always engaged in and by the world; they are open to "reflective backtalk": they can speak with conviction because they believe in what they are saying...and everyone else knows that. They are comfortable in their own skin. They feel at ease in the spotlight and they enjoy it there. They tend to be more receptive to opportunity and risk.”

“I wanted to make sure that the man who found the genie would not take terrible advantage of her, so he needed to be a person of integrity and honor - which is why I made the male lead an astronaut. The rest, as they say, is history.”

Men Persons Made Wanted Found Needed Honor Terrible Integrity Advantage Males Astronaut Genies

Author:Sidney Sheldon

“When you see no present advantage, walk by faith and not by sight. Do God the honor to trust Him when it comes to matters of loss for the sake of principle.”

Matter Loss Walks Principles Honor Advantage Sight Sake Walk By Faith

Book:Morning & Evening

Source: Morning & Evening

“If I lived by some code, my actions would become predictable. The enemy would take advantage of this and I’d be killed. An honorable death doesn’t exist. Death is death. But it’s funny that survival and revenge require the same thing: no honor codes, no supposed higher principles to aspire to, no mercy”

Ifs Action Enemy Principles Higher Honor Survival Advantage Mercy Revenge Code Aspire Honorable Predictable Honorable Death

Author:Frank Beddor