The useful is the noble and the hurtful is the base.
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The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the State but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime, while the herd as such remains dull in thought and dull in feeling.
I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward, even in the hands of the most devoted worker in this cause. The example of great and pure characters is the only thing that can produce fine ideas and noble deeds. Money only appeals to selfishness and always tempts its owners irresistibly to abuse it. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus, or Gandhi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie?
The man who does not enjoy doing noble actions is not a good man at all.
Hence anyone who is to listen intelligently to lectures about what is noble and just and, generally, about the subjects of political science must have been brought up in good habits.
Happiness then is the best, noblest, and most pleasant thing in the world, and these attributes are not severed as in the inscription at Delos – Most noble is that which is justest, and best is health; But pleasantest is it to win what we love.
The noble things and the just things, which the political art examines, admit of much dispute and variability, such that they are held to exist by law alone and not by nature.
For we are noble in only one way, but bad in all sorts of ways.
The noble soul reveres itself.
Love brings to light a lover’s noble and hidden qualities – his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities.
