The badge of honesty is simplicity. [ Novalis ]

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge. [ Tit. Andron ]

Mutability is the badge of infirmity. [ Proverb ]

Sufferance is the badge of all our tribe. [ William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice ]

Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence. [ Thomas Paine ]

Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman - repose in energy. [ Emerson ]

Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman - repose in energy. The Greek battle pieces are calm; the heroes, in whatever violent actions engaged, retain a serene aspect. [ Emerson ]

Mutability is the badge of infirmity; it is seldom that a man continues to wish and design the same thing two days alike; now he is for marrying, and now a mistress is preferred to a wife; now he is ambitious and aspiring, presently the meanest servant is not more humble than he; this hour he squanders his money away, the next he turns miser; sometimes he is frugal and serious, at other times profuse, airy, and gay. [ Charron ]