“Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.”
“Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.”
“Honor is the reward of virtue.”
“There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you.”
“A war is never undertaken by the ideal state, except in defense of its honor or its safety.”
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