What is nobler than a man wresting and wringing his bread from the stubborn soil by the sweat of his brow and the break of his back for his wife and children!
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
A man who always speaks the truth wholeheartedly is greater than those who do penance and deeds of charity.
Better not be at all than not be noble.
The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.
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