Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher, Writer
"It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right."
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Nobility
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Composer, Pianist
"Even in poverty I lived like a king for I tell you that nobility is the thing that makes a king"
Jordan Belfort
Stockbroker
"There's no nobility in poverty."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Poet, Playwright, Novelist
"A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them."
Homer
Poet
"Noblest minds are easiest bent."
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"Virtue is the truest nobility."
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"True nobility is exempt from fear."
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"If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy."
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"It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now."
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"The true nature of man left to himself without restraint is not nobility but savagery."
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"Be noble in every thought And in every deed!"
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"Base men being in love have then a nobility in their natures more than is native to them."
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"Let a man nobly live or nobly die."
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"A noble soul alone can noble souls attract; And knows alone, as ye, to hold them."
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"He who looks for advantage out of friendship strips it all of its nobility."
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"Every gift of noble origin Is breathed upon by Hope's perpetual breath."
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"All nobility in its beginnings was somebody's natural superiority."
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"Nobility of birth commonly abateth industry."
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"There is a nobility in the world of manners."
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"Men inadvertently comport themselves with nobility when they have grown accustomed to wanting nothing from others and always giving to them."
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"Disobedience- that is the nobility of slaves."
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"Piety, like nobility, has its aristocracy."
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"Today nobility is gone: there is only a peerage."
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