Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know…

Lois McMaster Bujold
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Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself. ✨ A Civil Campaign: A Comedy of Biology and Manners. Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1999.
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Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure.
Too late, he recalled Miles's dictum that the reward for a job well done was usually a harder job. ✨ Lois McMaster Bujold (2000). A Civil Campaign, p.203, Baen Books
When the time comes to leap in faith whether you have your eyes open or closed or scream all the way down or not makes no practical difference.
Miles exhaled carefully, faint with rage and reminded grief. He does not know, he told himself. He cannot know... Ivan, one of these days somebody is going to pull out a weapon and plug you, and you' … ▶
This wasn't prayer anyway, it was just argument with the gods. Prayer, he suspected as he hoisted himself up and turned for the door, was putting one foot in front of the other. Moving all the same.

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself. ✨ A Civil Campaign: A Comedy of Biology and Manners. Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1999.

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