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The noblest character is stained by the addition of pride.
[Lat., Inquinat egregios adjuncta superbia mores.]
The noblest character is stained by the addition of pride.
[Lat., Inquinat egregios adjuncta superbia mores.]
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
Be noble! And the nobleness that lies in other men, sleeping, but never dead, will rise in majesty to meet read more
Be noble! And the nobleness that lies in other men, sleeping, but never dead, will rise in majesty to meet thine own
Be noble in every thought
And in every deed!
Be noble in every thought
And in every deed!
Fond man! though all the heroes of your line
Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine
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Fond man! though all the heroes of your line
Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine
In proud display; yet take this truth from me--
Virtue alone is true nobility!
The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire
The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire
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.]
The nobility of England, my lord, would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount.
The nobility of England, my lord, would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount.
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
