If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy. — Boethius Copy Share Image
Virtue is the only and true nobility. [Lat., Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus.] — Juvenal Copy Share Image
Everyone has something that blocks us from the full experience and expression of our nobility. — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
“We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives, Who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best.” — Philip James Bailey Copy Share Image
The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost. — Viktor Korchnoi Copy Share Image
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Even in poverty I lived like a king for I tell you that nobility is the thing that makes a king — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
I remember the first check I got for 'The Office,' and it made me feel sad. It ruined it. ... Because there… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
The citizen ... preserved the resolute bearing of one who was not to be frowned down or daunted, and who cared very… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights. Noblesse oblige. 'To live as one… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Any fool can try to defend his mistakes - and most fools do - but it gives one a feeling of nobility… — Lawrence G. Lovasik Copy Share Image
It is as we respond to the understandings and feelings inherent in . . . art that we acquire much of our… — Ursula Goodenough Copy Share Image
Life flows on over death as water closes over a stone dropped into a pool. ... Fate is certain; death is certain;… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
“One loses nobility when he does something and then says, ‘I did that.’ A noble man will incur loss from both sides;… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
'There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is beingsuperior to your former self; because life isnt… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“O my brothers, I dedicate and direct you to a new nobility: you shall become procreators and cultivators and sowers of the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In reality, the likelihood of reaching the pinnacle of capitalist society today is only marginally better than were the chances of being… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Whatever I had read as a child about the saints had thrilled me. I could see the nobility of giving one's life… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
If the chief party, whether it be the people, or the army, or the nobility, which you think most useful and of… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Humor is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought; it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy. One feels… — Oscar W. Firkins Copy Share Image
“There is great nobility in ordinary people. The world disappoints us all, and the ways we change our own stories to survive… — Daniel Abraham Copy Share Image
Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely… — Clare Boothe Luce Copy Share Image
Certain elements of today's ecological crisis reveal its moral character. First among these is the indiscriminate application of advances in science and… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“civilization has absolutely no need of nobility or heroism. These things are symptoms of political inefficiency. In a properly organized society like… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“You are new here, so I will explain. In this land, nobility comes not from one’s fathers or a title or from… — Pamela Clare Copy Share Image
Whatever career you may choose for yourself - doctor, lawyer, teacher - let me propose an avocation to be pursued along with… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
I am Sa’kagé a lord of shadows. I claim the shadows that the Shadow may not. I am the strong arm of… — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
“Kelsier exhaled in exasperation. “Elend Venture? You risked your life—risked the plan, and our lives—for that fool of a boy?” Vin looked… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Fascism, in so far as it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity quite apart from political considerations of… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
The noblest relationship is marriage, that is, love. Its nobility resides in its altruism, the desire to serve another beyond all the… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
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