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Titles are marks of honest men, and wise:
The fool or knave that wears a title lies.
Titles are marks of honest men, and wise:
The fool or knave that wears a title lies.
Respect the man of noble races other than your own, who carries out, in a different place, a combat parallel read more
Respect the man of noble races other than your own, who carries out, in a different place, a combat parallel to yours -- to ours. He is your ally. He is our ally, be he at the other end of the world. Love all living things whose humble task is not opposed in any way to yours, to ours: men with simple hearts, honest, without vanity and malice, and all the animals, because they are beautiful, without exception and without exception indifferent to whatever "idea" there may be. Love them, and you will see the eternal in the glance of their eyes of jet, amber, or emerald. Love also the trees, the plants, the water that runs though the meadow and on to the sea without knowing where it goes; love the mountain, the desert, the forest, the immense sky, full of light or full of clouds; because all these exceed man and reveal the eternal to you.
I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.
I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.
O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy
nature!
O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy
nature!
Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die,
But leave us still our old nobility.
Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die,
But leave us still our old nobility.
There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease.
There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease.
This was the noblest Roman of them all.
All the conspirators save only he
Did that they read more
This was the noblest Roman of them all.
All the conspirators save only he
Did that they did in envy of great Caesar;
He, only in a general honest thought
And common good to all, made one of them.
Men don't like nobility in woman. Not any men. I suppose it is because the men like to have the read more
Men don't like nobility in woman. Not any men. I suppose it is because the men like to have the copyrights on nobility -- if there is going to be anything like that in a relationship.
A noble soul alone can noble souls attract;
And knows alone, as ye, to hold them.
[Ger., read more
A noble soul alone can noble souls attract;
And knows alone, as ye, to hold them.
[Ger., Ein edler Mensch zieht edle Menschen an,
Und weiss sie fest zu halten, wie ihr thut.]