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Doing the right thing even when the only witness is you.
means A person's reputation for integrity, or the respect and moral code they hold themselves to — the thing that keeps a promise a promise even when breaking it would be easier.
from From Old French 'honor/onor', descending from Latin 'honos' (later 'honor'), meaning esteem, dignity, or public office. The Latin root itself is of uncertain deeper origin, but the word arrived in English with the Normans and has carried that same double sense ever since — both the external esteem others grant you and the internal code that earns it.
- spelling tell
- u means you learned english outside america
- etymology
- from latin honos, meaning public esteem
- paradox
- loudly claiming it usually means you lack it