Honor
Esteem given for worth or virtue, and the sense of one's own dignity and reputation.
Works to read
- The Iliad by Homer, c. 8th century BCE · Great Books
- All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare, c. 1604 · Great Books
- The Spirit of the Laws by Montesquieu, 1748 · Great Books
- A Lost Lady by Willa Cather, 1923 · Great Books
- The Histories, Book VI by Polybius, c. 150 BC
- Beowulf by Anonymous, c. 8th-11th century
- The Nibelungenlied by Anonymous, c. 1200
- The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini, 1558-1563
- Henry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare, c. 1596-97 (published 1598)
- Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare, c. 1598-99 (published 1600)
- The St Crispin's Day Speech by William Shakespeare, 1599
- Othello by William Shakespeare, c. 1603-04 (published 1622)
Passages
From the texts
Why of honour and wisdom and pleasure the accounts are distinct and different in so far as they are good.
— Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
Honour is the token of a man's being famous for doing good. it is chiefly and most properly paid to those who have already done good; but also to the man who can do good in future.
— Aristotle, Rhetoric
To honour those another honours, is to Honour him; as a signe of approbation of his judgement.
— Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
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