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The military commander who leaves his walls to negotiate with the enemy courts disaster; history is full of men who paid for a moment's confidence with their freedom or their lives.
Honor belongs to the individual alone; it cannot be inherited, transferred, or contaminated by the actions of relatives — the notion that a family shares in the disgrace of one of its members is an absurdity that flatters no one.
Public honours lose their value when distributed too freely; scarcity is the condition of worth — in medals as in praise.