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“Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.”

Heart Might Truth Simple Honesty Policy Honor Aim Trade Tone Maxims Identical Honesty Is The Best Policy Aim Of Life

Book:At home and abroad: or, Things and thoughts in America and Europe. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller

Source: At home and abroad: or, Things and thoughts in America and Europe. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller

“The tradition of portrait painting, to embellish or idealize the subject, remains the aim of everyday and of commercial photography, but it has had a much more limited career in photography considered as art. Generally speaking, the honors have gone to the Cordelias.”

Art Careers Gone Subjects Painting Honor Photography Tradition Aim Remains Everyday Portraits Cordelia

Book:On photography

Source: On photography

“One can aim at honor both as one ought, and more than one ought, and less than one ought. He whose craving for honor is excessive is said to be ambitious, and he who is deficient in this respect unambitious; while he who observes the mean has no peculiar name.”

Mean Said Names Ought Honor Aim Peculiar Ambitious Craving

Author:Aristotle

“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

“This is one of the stout-hearted old warriors: he is angry with civilization because he supposes that its aim is to make all goodthings--honors, treasures, beautiful women--accessible even to cowards.”

Beautiful Courage Honor Civilization Aim Angry Treasure Warrior Coward Cowardice Beautiful Women Hearted Stout

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Renouncing the honors at which the world aims, I desire only to know the truth... and to the maximum of power, I exhort all other men to do the same.”

Knows Men World Desire Honor Aim Maximum

Author:Plato

“Aim high, but do not aim so high that you totally miss the target. What really matters is that he will love you, that he will respect you, that he will honor you, that he will be absolutely true to you, that he will give you the freedom of expression and let you fly in the development of your own talents. He is not going to be perfect, but if he is kind and thoughtful, if he knows how to work and earn a living, if he is honest and full of faith, the chances are you will not go wrong, that you will be immensely happy.”