quotations about disgrace
If the gods do anything disgraceful, they are not gods.
J. BERRY
attributed, Day's Collacon
For if to poverty we add disgrace,
Our poverty will be of double weight.
PLAUTUS
Persa
There is but a step between a proud man's glory and his disgrace.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
The Moral Sayings of Publilius Syrus
Now since shame is a mental picture of disgrace, in which we shrink from the disgrace itself and not from its consequences, and we only care what opinion is held of us because of the people who form that opinion, it follows that the people before whom we feel shame are those whose opinion of us matters to us.
ARISTOTLE
Rhetoric
To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.
CONFUCIUS
The Analects