Artabanus answered him: "O stranger, the laws of men are different, and one thing is honourable to one man, and to others another; but it is honourable for all to honour and observe their own laws.
Some motives are honourable – for example the desire to help people to live healthier lives; while others are more base – fame, power, money.
Savage Family is predicated on disseminating messages of resistance and decolonization that it's honourable for the next generation to stand up for themselves and their rights, even if it involves weapons.
There were honourable motives for declaring war on Hitler, as there are for unseating Saddam, but that is not what, a year ago, we were offered.
There are honourable mentions for Malcolm X, Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi.
Nat Lofthouse and Bobby Moore both saved penalties for Bolton and West Ham respectively (though Moore was unfortunate enough to have the rebound blasted straight past him), and there are honourable mentions for Beardsley, Mal Donaghy, David Speedie and Vinnie Jones.
There were honourable mentions for others, including Allan Bateman, Bruce Reihana and Soane Tonga'uiha - but only four could make the final cut.
Glenn Maxwell deserves it for those two "worldie" catches alone, never mind his 85 from 64 balls, but there should be honourable mentions for Eoin Morgan, Pat Cummins and David Willey, who all played major parts in an enthralling game.
So although there are honourable mentions for Grenada (who won a gold and a bronze thanks to Kirani James in the men's 400m and decathlete Kurt Felix) and Pacific island nation Kiribati (giant weightlifter David Katoatau won gold before memorably busting some moves as if he was on the dancefloor) we're left with a familiar name as the winner of BBC Sport's alternative medals table - Nauru.
In the absence of international copyright agreements, the British author usually received nothing, but there were honourable exceptions; Harper Brothers, for instance, paid considerable royalties to Charles Dickens and Thomas Macaulay, among others.
