#nobility

Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference. ↗

— Albert Camus

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Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings. ↗

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings. ↗

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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The army is the true nobility of our country. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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True nobility is exempt from fear. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

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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

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

— Riccardo Muti

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What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance. ↗

— Theodore Roethke

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