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“Wednesday, June 17, 1789, France went from a system where only the nobility and the church had power to a system where, at least…

— Tom Reiss

“Civilization has absolutely no need of nobility or heroism. These things are symptoms of political ineffiency. In a properly organized society like ours, nobody…

— Anonymous

“Often the poor have more nobility in them than the actual nobility.”

— Amish Tripathi

“Despite noble depravity, there was something intoxicating about high society.”

— Brandon Sanderson

“I think something innate in us understands that seeking the good of society is usually best for the individual as well. Humankind is noble,…

— Brandon Sanderson

“Nobility is the perfection in each thing of its proper nature.”

— Dante Alighieri

“Nobility is often no more than the inner aspect which our egotistical feelings assume when we have not yet named and classified them.”

— Marcel Proust

Virtue is the truest nobility.

— Miguel de Cervantes

“Therefore, O my brothers, is a new nobility needed: to oppose all mob-rule and all despotism and to write anew upon new law-tables the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Personal nobility is greater than any calling, or any reward that it can bring.”

— Orison Swett Marden

“. . .for the designated successor to royal authority, the Sovereign People, was no more capable than Louis XVI of reconciling freedom with power.”

— Simon Schama

“Of course all that these young bourgeois really wanted was to be aristocrats. They bought titles, married into aristocratic families whenever they could. And…

— Anne Rice