"Ridicule dishonours more than dishonour." — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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• So far as we are concerned, there is not one word in the statements that I have made in this… — Arundhati Roy
• Those who try to make room for sex as mere casual enjoyment pay the penalty: they become shallow. At any… — G. E. M. Anscombe
• Indeed, I was so afraid to dishonour my friends and family by my indiscreet actions, that I rather chose to… — Margaret Cavendish
• I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. I would… — Mahatma Gandhi
• His honour rooted in dishonour stood, And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
• If... God highly exalted Christ because He humbled Himself, suffered dishonour, was tempted and endured a shameful cross and death… — Gregory Palamas
• The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and… — Abraham Lincoln
• Yet living and dying, honour and dishonour, pain and pleasure, riches and poverty, and so forth are equally the lot… — Marcus Aurelius
• Now, we are agreed, I and my destinies. The total world, Above, below, whate'er is seen or known, And all… — Hartley Coleridge
• The Japanese had a very strong belief in Bushido, death before dishonour. They were fighting for their country; they were… — Steven Spielberg
• In spite of all the dishonour, the broken standards, the broken lives, The broken faith in one place or another,… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
• Man is nothing; he hath a free will to go to hell, but none to go to heaven, till God… — George Whitefield

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