Honorable Death Quotes

• Despair is a great incentive to honorable death.

  Quintus Curtius Rufus

  Despair, Incentives, Honorable

  "Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt". Book IX, 5, 6,

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• Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people seek it.

  David Gemmell

  Native American, People, Age

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• The loss of reason seems to me honorable, like the death of a sentry at his post.

  Leonid Andreyev

  War, Loss, Reason

  "The Seven That Were Hanged".

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• No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.

  Zeno of Citium

  Death, Evil, Honorable

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• Man's life is short; and therefore an honorable death is his immortality.

  Publilius Syrus

  Life Is Short, Men, Immortality

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• An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
  [Lat., Honesta mors turpi vita potior.]

  Tacitus

  Death, Honorable, Dishonorable

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• If I lived by some code, my actions would become predictable. The enemy would take advantage of this and I’d be killed. An honorable death doesn’t exist. Death is death. But it’s funny that survival and revenge require the same thing: no honor codes, no supposed higher principles to aspire to, no mercy

  Frank Beddor

  Revenge, Enemy, Survival

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• I got shot in the head by my own guys in my foxhole. And they didn't even give me an honorable death.

  Bill Vaughan

  Giving, Guy, Foxholes

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