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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.»
«There are obligations to nobility. [Lat., Noblesse oblige.]»
Author: Duc De Levis
(Soldier)
| Keywords:
lat, nobility, noblesse, noblesse oblige, obligations, oblige
«Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath»
«Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, bestial thing, commonplace, uncalled for, natural as air. It is intangible; no one can grasp it or fight against it; it dwells in time / is the same thing as time; if it comes in fits and starts, that is only so as to leave the sufferer more defenseless during the moments that follow, those long moments when one relives the last bout of torture and waits for the next.»
Author: Cesare Pavese
(Critic, Novelist, Poet, Translator)
| Keywords:
bestial, bout, bouts, by fits and starts, by no means, commonplace, defenseless, dwells, fierce, fits, intangible, intangibles, nobility, privilege, relive, relives, reliving, reminder, reminders, so as to, sufferer, sufferers, torture, uncalled-for, waits
«Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
based, indifference, nobility, profound, scorn
«Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| Keywords:
civil order, Civil society, Corinthian, graceful, nobility, ornament, polished
«Nobility of birth commonly abateth industry.»
«Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it ca»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Skepticism
| Keywords:
chastity, comer, comers, coolly, discretion, nobility, preserving, proudly, ripeness, shameful, skepticism, too soon
«No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
fraud, like royalty, nobility, ridicule, royalties, royalty
«Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.»
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