The morally noble will always overcome the less noble and will persist longer than the mean.
Theodor Mommsen
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Just say "mister I'm sorry, I got no time to die, I'm too busy" and then turn and run like hell. If they say coward why don't pay any attention because it's your job to live not to die. If they talk about dying for principles that are bigger than life, you say "mister you're a liar. Nothing is bigger than life". There's nothing noble in death. What's noble about lying in the ground and rotting? What's noble about never seeing the sunshine again? What's noble about having your legs and arms blown off? What's noble about being an idiot? What's noble about being blind and deaf and dumb? What's noble about being dead? Because when you're dead, mister, it's all over. It's the end. You're less than a dog, less than a rat, less than a bee or an ant, less than a white maggot crawling around on a dungheap. You're dead, mister, and you died for nothing.
Dalton Trumbo
The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
There is
One great society alone on earth:
The noble Living and the noble Dead.William Wordsworth
A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Generous, adj. Originally this word meant noble by birth and was rightly applied to a great multitude of persons. It now means noble by nature and is taking a bit of a rest.
Ambrose Bierce
Mommsen, Theodor
Momoedonu, Tevita
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