Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Honor
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To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.
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If virtue cannot shine bright, but by the conflict of contrary appetites, shall we then say that she cannot subsist without the assistance of vice, and that it is from her that she derives her reputation and honor?
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The honor we receive from those that fear us, is not honor; those respects are paid to royalty and not to me.
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If not for that of conscience, yet at least for ambition's sake, let us reject ambition, let us disdain that thirst of honor and renown, so low and mendicant; that it makes us beg it of all sorts of people.
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It is not reasonable that art should win the place of honor over our great and powerful mother Nature. We have so overloaded the beauty and richness of her works by our inventions that we have quite smothered her.
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I honor most those to whom I show least honor; and where my soul moves with great alacrity, I forget the proper steps of ceremony.
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How many worthy men have we known to survive their own reputation, who have seen and suffered the honor and glory most justly acquired in their youth, extinguished in their own presence?
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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The honor of the conquest is rated by the difficulty.
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