Are we not all one flesh? One mind? A sword brings power. Knowledge brings coin. With either, one can make blood reckoned, can earn names. The only thing that differs between a noble man and...

We are at war. There will be scars. – Uttara Vairati

All boys wish to be manly; but they often try to become so by copying the vices of men rather than their virtues. They see men drinking, smoking, swearing; so these poor little fellows sedulously...

And do you know another thing, Arthur? Life is too bitter already, without territories and wars and noble feuds.

It’s easy to run to others. It’s so hard to stand on one’s own record. You can fake virtue for an audience. You can’t fake it in your own eyes. Your ego is your strictest...

I am death; I am this blood, these ravaged lands, and this wanton destruction. – Panchali Draupadi

If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy

The Wheel of Time spins: there is beginning and there is end. But why does the Wheel of Time spin? Is it some divine force that propels it? Or is that force humanity, people in...

And so men have the chance to be noble, in a way that angels cannot.

When he endures nothing but endless miseries– What pleasure is there in living the day after day, Edging slowly back and forth toward death?Anyone who warms their heart with the glow Of flickering hope is...

Fransisco, you’re some kind of very high nobility, aren’t you?” He answered, “Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long time is that none of us has ever been permitted to...

… the greatest mystery, the greatest wonder of creation is that we are capable of both relentless reason and boundless love … It is not about what we are, but what we can become.– Govinda...

Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs; it’s actually quite common. The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe.

For too long now divinity and destiny have legitimized what reason and compassion would not. An individual for a family, a family for the kingdom, a kingdom for an empire… And now – an empire...

Mapleshade: “Your punishment is complete now, Crookedstar. You have lost everything.” Crookedstar: “No, Mapleshade. You’re wrong. I still have a clan that I love and am proud to lead. And now… …now everything precious to...

We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives,Who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best.

Pray silently with simplicity every day to stay cool and calm in mind, composed and collected in heart; courageous and connected to own soul, to lay the way for a peaceful life.

Kill them. Kill them all. Remind the world what it means to be Arya. Remind the world what it is to walk with the gods. – Syoddhan Kauravya

If ever you feel like an animal among men, be a lion.

Their arrogance protected them against any liking for their fellow-man, against the slightest interest in the strangers sitting all about them, amidst whom M. de Stermaria adopted the manner one has in the buffet-car of...

There’s more to being a warrior than killing. A true warrior — the best warrior — isn’t cruel or mean. He doesn’t claw an enemy who can’t fight back. Where’s the honor in that?

Wealth without virtue is no harmless neighbor.

And don’t say things about people you don’t know. You’re no skaa— you’re just noblemen without titles.”She turned, stalking from the room. Kelsier watched her go, shocked, hearing her footsteps on the stairs. He stood,...

No one person is the cause for or consequence of all that happens. I am just the tenth man, the threshold, the turn in the tide. I stand here on the shoulders of humanity, a...

Maturity is when you’re able to say, ‘It’s not just them. It’s me.

Alyssa tried to lift her chin. She was going to do the one thing she loved again- something that reminded her of her mother; something dear to her. So what if she felt this undeniable...

It’s not as if we’re running a hospital for sick children down here, let’s put it that way. Where’s the nobility in patching up a bunch of old tables and chairs? Corrosive to the soul,...

I am only a peasant by position, not by nature!

Before I go,” he said, and paused — “I may kiss her?”It was remembered afterwards that when he bent down and touched her face with his lips, he murmured some words. The child, who was...

Noble though it may be, our way of life is nothing but servitude. It does not take long for servitude to turn to subjugation.– Shikandin Draupada

A strong man does not succumb to pressures, he knows that without pressures he will not find pleasures and so he will not be made.

Both died, ignored by most; they neither sought nor found public favour, for high roads never lead there. Laurent and Gerhardt never left such roads, were never tempted to peruse those easy successes which, for...

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

Yes, it was dangerous, but we are not put into this world, Mr. Burton, to avoid danger when an important fellow creature’s life is at stake. You understand me?

A new age dawns, Uttara. The Wheel of Time has turned. Not too long from now – hopefully in our lifetime – Aryavarta will be a janapada, a realm ruled by its people, the largest...

Modesty is a noble expression of honesty

The MacKinnon brothers are the highest nobility to those who live on the frontier—true warriors, men who know how to fight and survive, men who put the lives of others before their own. Your family’s...

Very little of what he learned of people’s actions began or ended with either the noble ideals or the fiendish wickedness he had been taught lay behind all great struggles. There was something comforting in...

Nobility is not only in forgiveness.

Without love, we would not comprehend compassion.- Govinda Shauri

Laws should act as the lower limits of acceptable behavior, not as a guide to noble action.

In the end you should always do the right thing even if it’s hard.

Dav­el­lon may be a vil­lage, but the Dav­el­lon House can be any­thing you make it. No­bil­ity has to start some­where. It might as well start with you. Let no­body look down on you, for what­ever...

When your cause is noble, you shall never know fear.

We like to admit to only that which already glows, although it is nobler to support brightness before it glows, not afterwards.

Men like you and I make myths, we weave stories to sanctify the life that has been given to us. But not Govinda. Men like him don’t make myths; they make destiny. – Kshatta Vidur

No duty is ignoble. What can be ignoble is the sight of people trying not to be ignoble.

Hast thou given the horse strength? Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder?…He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage…

The statesman received us with that old-fashioned courtesy for which he is remarkable, and seated us on the two luxuriant lounges on either side of the fireplace. Standing on the rug between us, with his...