Honours
- Germany : Grand Crosse Special Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Iceland : Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Falcon
- Latvia : Recipient 1st Class of the Order of the Three Stars
- Lithuania: Grand Cross of the Order of Vytautas the Great (19/08/1997)
- Norway : Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Olav
- Poland : Order of the White Eagle (Poland) (1998)
- Collar of the Order of the National Coat of Arms
- Recipient 1st Class of the Order of the National Coat of Arms
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“Come hither, all ye empty things,
Ye bubbles rais’d by breath of Kings;
Who float upon the tide of state,
Come hither, and behold your fate.
Let pride be taught by this rebuke,
How very mean a thing’s a Duke;
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Turn’d to that dirt from whence he sprung.”
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“Vain men delight in telling what Honours have been done them, what great Company they have kept, and the like; by which they plainly confess, that these Honours were more than their Due, and such as their Friends would not believe if they had not been told: Whereas a Man truly proud, thinks the greatest Honours below his Merit, and consequently scorns to boast. I therefore deliver it as a Maxim that whoever desires the Character of a proud Man, ought to conceal his Vanity.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)