nobility

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knight

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is an inadvertent effect of one who has grown accustomed to wanting nothing from others and always giving to them.

Men inadvertently comport themselves with nobility when they have grown accustomed to wanting nothing from others and always giving to them. Friedrich Nietzsche

is defined by the demands it makes on us (by obligations, not by rights). To live as one likes is plebeian... the noble man aspires to order and law.

Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us by obligations, not by rights. Noblesse oblige. 'To live as one likes is plebeian... the noble man aspires to order and law.' Jose Ortega y Gasset

is often no more than the inner aspect which our egotistical feelings assume when we have not yet named and classified them.

Nobility is often no more than the inner aspect which our egotistical feelings assume when we have not yet named and classified them.

's original class was always the barbarian caste. Their superiority lay, not in their physical strength, but primarily in their psychical - they were more complete human beings.

The noble caste was in the beginning always the barbarian caste: their superiority lay, not in their physical strength, but primarily in their psychical - they were more complete human beings...

is that strata of society which consumes without producing.

that strata of society which consumes without producing,

is only possible to achieve when no one is looking.

One can only be noble when no one is looking.

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