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• Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. -- Aristotle (384-322BC)
• Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. -- Aristotle
• True dignity is never gained by place, and never won when honors are withdrawn. -- Massinge
• The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.
  If Eudaimonia, or happiness, is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence...
• Life does not consist of thinking, it consists in acting.
• The people most preoccupied with titles and status are usually the least deserving of them.
• Nature does nothing uselessly. -- Aristotle
• It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
  -- Mark Twai...