#nobility

True nobility is exempt from fear. ↗

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

Strip the proud nobility of their bloated estates, reduce them to a level with plain republicans, send forth to labor, and teach their children to enter the workshops or handle the plow, and you will thus humble proud traitors. ↗

— Thaddeus Stevens

#children #enter #estates #forth #handle

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#bodies #did #filthy #heads #idea

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

The German people is not marked by original sin, but by original nobility. ↗

— Alfred Rosenberg

#german people #marked #nobility #original #original sin

The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#convictions #his #human #human being #independent

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#mercy #nobility #sweet #true

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now. ↗