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When he endures nothing but endless miseries-- What pleasure is there in living the day after day, Edging slowly back and forth toward death? Anyone who warms their heart with the glow Of flickering hope is worth nothing at all. The noble man should either live with honor or die with honor. That's all there is to be said.


Sophocles


#nobility #suicide #death

You are new here, so I will explain. In this land, nobility comes not from one’s fathers or a title or from the land one owns, but from one’s actions.” His voice was hard-edged, and his words seemed harsh to her. “The MacKinnon brothers are the highest nobility to those who live on the frontier—true warriors, men who know how to fight and survive, men who put the lives of others before their own. Your family’s wealth, your title, your virtue—they mean nothing out here. They won’t fill your belly, and they won’t keep you alive. What matters most right now is your survival. (Joseph to Lady Sarah)


Pamela Clare


#integrity #nobility #title #family

Chivalry!---why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection---the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant ---Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best protection in her lance and her sword.


Walter Scott


#oppression

We like to admit to only that which already glows, although it is nobler to support brightness before it glows, not afterwards.


Dejan Stojanovic


#books #brightness #dejan-stojanovic #glow #literature

... in qualsiasi attività nobile o denigrata c'è sempre spazio per una folgorazione di onnipotenza.


Muriel Barbery


#nobility

Of whom and of what can I say: "I know that"! This heart within me I can feel, and I judge that it exists. This world I can touch, and I likewise judge that it exists. There ends all my knowledge, and the rest is construction. For if I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I try to define and to summarize it, it is nothing but water slipping through my fingers. I can sketch one by one all the aspects it is able to assume, all those likewise that have been attributed to it, this upbringing, this origin, this ardor or these silences, this nobility or this vileness. But aspects cannot be added up. This very heart which is mine will forever remain indefinable to me. Between the certainty I have of my existence and the content I try to give to that assurance the gap will never be filled.


Albert Camus


#existence #knowledge #nobility

One finds nobility in the oddest places.


Cassandra Clare


#nobility

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

The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.


Viktor Korchnoi


#element #flaw #human #human element #lost






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