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“Oh, that,” said the king with a shrug. “That isn’t your honor, Costis. That’s the public perception of your honor. It has nothing to do with anything important, except perhaps for manipulating fools who mistake honor for its bright, shiny trappings. You can always change the perceptions of fools.”
—The King of Attolia, Megan Whalen Turner
“Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself. … It could be worse. There is no more hollow feeling than to stand with your honor shattered at your feet while soaring public reputation wraps you in rewards. That’s soul-destroying. The other way around is merely very, very irritating.”
—A Civil Campaign, Lois McMaster Bujold
“Then there will be need of valour without renown, for none shall remember the deeds that are done in the last defence of your homes. Yet the deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised.”
—The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
Man, I just read the same book over and over again, don’t I.
