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Honour (Source 3: (Perhaps the most moving statement of the importance of…
Honour
Source 3:
Perhaps the most moving statement of the importance of inner honour comes from Hermione, in The Winter's Tale, as she stands accused of adultery, and threatened with death:
But yet hear this--mistake me not: for life,
I prize it not a straw, but for mine honour,
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Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else,
But what your jealousies awake, I tell you,
'Tis rigour, and not law.
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Source 1:
The reputation and worth of a man consisteth in his heart and will; therein lies true honour
(Montaigne, Essays 1.30).
The worth of a man is determined through his heart, as that is where true honour lies.
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