Quotes About Nobility

The dead are noble, the living worthless.

Hay tres cosas majestuosas en su marcha, y una cuarta de elegante caminar: el león, poderoso entre las fieras, que no retrocede ante nada; el gallo, que se yergue orgulloso, y también el macho cabrío, y el rey, cuando tiene el ejército con él.

What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.

Tout petit prince a des ambassadeurs, Tout marquis veut avoir des pages.

Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.

As the sun is to the earth, so Honour is to a man. without it, he will not flourish. All else may fail you, but honour is the treasure no one can take from you, the shield no one can penetrate unless you let them. Honour is beautiful and clean. Honour is sacred.

Furniture was scanty - demountable tables and benches eased only by "bankers," cushions or embroidered cloths. Usually the noble host alone had a chair; hence our chairman is the person who presides at meetings.

Since predation must be supported out of the surplus of production, it is necessarily true that the class constituting the State—the full-time bureaucracy (and nobility)—must be a rather small minority in the land, although it may, of course, purchase allies among important groups in the population. Therefore, the chief task of the rulers is always to secure the active or resigned acceptance of the majority of the citizens.8, 9 Of

1. Reincarnation of a karmic centrifuge in which we cognize infinity. In a karmic time loop, which can only be broken by disinterested nobility. 2. The subconscious is pickled like the wine of philosophy, through quantum infinity, the tinctures of thoughts with each life become stronger and stronger 3. Quantum reincarnation of the subconscious as a vacuum of paradoxes of life experience. Author: Musin Almat Zhumabekovich

On audio cassette of a man thinking. One part of the tape is the past and the other is the future. Here you can feel the regularity and predictability of life that everything is a foregone conclusion. In our head, in the subconscious, everything is a record; only disinterested nobility can interrupt this record, which will create a new, more sincere form of thinking in the film of consciousness.

Selfless nobility is a panacea for all the moral diseases of mankind, in the pharmacy of the philosophy of good and light. Aphorism should become a cure for evil.

He has little use for scholars, but you are his sole grandchild, and as such, he is willing to overlook your failings as long as you conduct yourself as a princess of the court during your time of service. Do not disappoint him, Andromeda. Your grandfather's mercy is not endless.

I have closed the gaping abyss of anarchy, and I have unscrambled chaos, I have cleansed the Revolution, ennobled the common people, and restored the authority of kings. I have stirred all men to competition, I have rewarded merit wherever I found it, I have pushed back the boundaries of greatness.

The army is the true nobility of our country.

Shigure: "That's lovely. She's so... how shall I say it? By putting it into words I'm afraid the nobility of it all would only be obscured." Yuki: "Of what?" Shigure: "You know, she's so spunky!" Kyo: "You sick bastard!

Think truly, and thy thoughts shall the world's famine feed; Speak truly, and each word of thine shall be a fruitful seed; Live truly, and thy life shall be a great and noble creed.

The view from the duke's office has changed very little in the past 200 years.

Our political system responds to large donors, so politicians create benefits for the rich, who then reward the politicians who created them. How different is this from the symbiosis in the Middle Ages between a king and the nobility, elevating aristocrats who repressed the peasantry at the same time that they hailed their own magnanimity and rolled their eyes at the peasants' morals?

Just inside the tent, the king, unhelmed, stood with his naked sword in one hand, point resting on the floor, and a goblet in his other.

If a lord was frightening, a noble lady was terrifying.

Ethical rules vary; honour does not change. A man is noble if he prefers to fail rather than to debase the tools of his triumph.

To be an aristocrat is to not believe that everything depends on the will.

Nations have two noble modes of existence—ascent or decadence—and one vulgar mode—prosperity.

The fact that nothing in this world fulfills us does not prevent us from longing for a world that is less ignoble and less ugly. In a well-tended garden the soul observes with nobler tranquility the initial onslaught of winter.