Mort de ma vie! all is confounded, all!
Reproach and everlasting shame
Sits mocking in our plumes.

Mort de ma vie! all is confounded, all!
Reproach and everlasting shame
Sits mocking in our plumes.

Shame is an ornament of the young; a disgrace of the old.

Shame is an ornament of the young; a disgrace of the old.

What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.

What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.

I count him lost, who is lost to shame.
[Lat., Nam ego illum periisse duco, cui quidem periit pudor.]

I count him lost, who is lost to shame.
[Lat., Nam ego illum periisse duco, cui quidem periit pudor.]

Doubt is the brother of shame.

Doubt is the brother of shame.

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A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

If yet not lost to all the sense of shame.

If yet not lost to all the sense of shame.

Common sense hides shame.

Common sense hides shame.