Honor with the northern gentry was subjective; with the Italians _Onore_ was objective--an addition conferred from without, in the shape of reputation, glory, titles of distinction, or offices of trust.[6] [1] Ricordi politici e civili, No.

118, _Op.

Ined._ vol.i.
[2] See De Stendhal, _Histoire de la peinture en Italie_, pp.
285-91, for a curious catalogue of examples.

The modern sense of honor is based, no doubt, to some extent on a delicate _amour propre_, which makes a man desirous of winning the esteem of his neighbors for its own sake.

Granting that conscience, pride, vanity, and self-respect are all constituents of honor, we may, perhaps, find more pride in the Spanish, more _amour propre_ in the French, and more conscience in the English.
[3] Gargantua, lib.1.ch.