If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner >>
I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but >>
A blot in thy escutcheon to all futurity. >>
Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and >>
No one ever lost his honor, except he who had it not. >>
For one who has been honored, dishonor is worse than death. >>
A person dishonored is worst than dead.