Accidents Quote by Carlo Goldoni

Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.

— Carlo Goldoni

We will not think noble because we are not noble. We will not live in beautiful harmony because there is no such thing in…

— Lillian Hellman

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

— Tacitus

The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal. [Lat., Divitarum et formae gloria fluxa atque fragilis;…

— Sallust

Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.

— Honore de Balzac

“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

If you are to be among the noble you must be noble. If you are to be among the wise, you must be wise,…

— Hugh B. Brown

One is not called noble who harms living beings. By not harming living beings one is called noble.

— Gautama Buddha

“Think what you like about yourself, but we will continue seeing you as you are - a noble man." "Noble -" "Not that kind…

— Steven Erikson

“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

Those who foolishly pride themselves on their nobility mistake that which makes them noble, for it is only the virtue of their ancestors that…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable