“The way to honor, way to safety is.”
La via d'onor della salute è via.
Canto XX, stanza 110 (tr. Fairfax)
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
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La via d'onor della salute è via.
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
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Torquato Tasso 94
Italian poet 1544–1595Related quotes

“Honor in safety, survival under threat. Necessity is the only law.”
Source: The Stone Sky (2017), Chapter 9 “the desert, briefly, and you” (p. 231)

“At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.”
Source: The Faith of Leap (2011), p. 85

“Goodness is either the great safety or the great danger—according to the way you react to it.”
Book I, Chapter 5, "We Have Cause to Be Uneasy"
Mere Christianity (1952)
Context: Some people talk as if meeting the gaze of absolute goodness would be fun. They need to think again. They are still only playing with religion. Goodness is either the great safety or the great danger—according to the way you react to it.

“Profitability is the consequence of doing business in the right way, to honor God.”
Source: Doing Virtuous Business (Thomas Nelson, 2011), p. 52.

“The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.”
No findable citation to Socrates. Found ascribed to Socrates in Stephen Covey (1992), Principle Centered Leadership (1990) p. 51 https://books.google.com/books?id=w4zCIPZrniQC&pg=PA51&dq=%22be+what+we+pretend+to+be%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiyvZnCg5HKAhUU5mMKHQIIAIgQ6AEIHTAA#v=onepage&q=%22be%20what%20we%20pretend%20to%20be%22&f=false.
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“A war is never undertaken by the ideal state, except in defense of its honor or its safety.”
Nullum bellum suscipi a civitate optima nisi aut pro fide aut pro salute.
De Re Publica, Book 3, Chapter 23
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 166.

“The only way to overcome this crisis is to have more babies and honor the sanctity of life.”
Source: Bishops Want Catholic Baby Boom To Halt Slide In Kerala Christian Community https://www.ucanews.com/story-archive/?post_name=/2007/09/14/bishops-want-catholic-baby-boom-to-halt-slide-in-kerala-christian-community&post_id=6428 (September 13, 2007)