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"There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot."

"If any honor existed in war, it was in fighting to protect others from harm."

"Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold."

"I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by calling the offender in question to a personal account."

"As for men, they must learn bravery and live for Pleasure and for Beauty. More important than those two things should stand only one thing for him... Honor. A man's honor should be more sacred to him than his life - especially in our age, a time when very few men know what honor is."
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"And when long years and seasons wheeling brought around that point of time ordained for him to make his passage homeward, trials and dangers, even so, attended him even in Ithaca, near those he loved."

"Yea, and if some god shall wreck me in the wine-dark deep,even so I will endure For already have I suffered full much,and much have I toiled in perils of waves and war.Let this be added to the tale of those."

"Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another."

"But now, as it is, sorrows, unending sorrows must surge within your heart as well-for your own son's death. Never again will you embrace him stiding home. My spirit rebels-I've lost the will to live, to take my stand in the world of men."
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