#nobility

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves. ↗

— John Lothrop Motley

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War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it. ↗

— Benito Mussolini

#brings #courage #energies #highest #human

Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition. ↗

— Riccardo Muti

#commitment #more #nobility #ostentation #rather

In most films - especially in regards to the protagonist - really from the get-go they set up some scenario that endears that character to the audience. Or imbues him with some nobility or heroism or something. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#character #endears #especially #films #get-go

A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses. ↗

— George Orwell

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Virtue is the truest nobility. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#truest #virtue

I wanted to be Katharine Hepburn-ish - there was a bit of nobility about her. ↗

— Sally Field

#bit #her #i #nobility #wanted

A successful villain should have all these things at his or her villainous fingertips, or else give up villainy altogether and try to lead a life of decency, integrity, and kindness, which is much more challenging and noble, if not always quite as exciting. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#life

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul. ↗

— Rebecca West

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