Those are most desirous of honor and glory who cry out the loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the world.
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More Quotes from Benedict Spinoza
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
Man is a social animal.
Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.
The things which . . . are esteemed as the greatest good of all . . . can be reduced to these three headings: to wit, Riches, Fame, and Pleasure. With these three the mind is so engrossed that it cannot scarcely think of any other good.
More on Honor
Confidence…thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.
Duty, honor, country. Those three hallowed words dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.