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It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Honor is simply the morality of superior men.

— H. L. Mencken

Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.

— Zhuangzi

I suspect that with men like General Petraeus, where honor means something - losing your life is secondary to losing your honor.

— Trey Gowdy

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

— Aeschylus

Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.

— Norman Mailer

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

— Blaise Pascal

There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.

— Samuel Richardson

A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.

— Walter Lippmann

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

— Thomas Jefferson

When we see men of worth, we should think of equalling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inward and examine ourselves.

— Gustave Courbet

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