
Original: Solo persone con un animo nobile conoscono il rispetto. Non permettere a nessun altro di interagire con la bellezza della tua persona.
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Torquato Tasso, Act I, sc. i (1790)
Original: Solo persone con un animo nobile conoscono il rispetto. Non permettere a nessun altro di interagire con la bellezza della tua persona.
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“It is noble to be shy, illustrious not to know how to act, great not to have a gift for living.”
Ibid., p. 86
The Book of Disquiet
Original: É nobre ser tímido, ilustre não saber agir, grande não ter jeito para viver.
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Quand la religion et la royauté seront abattues, le peuple en viendra aux grands, après les grands il s'en prendra aux riches.
Source: About Catherine de' Medici (1842), Part II: The Ruggieri's Secret, Ch. V: The Alchemists.
Source: Death in Florence (1978), Chapter 3 “Moore and More” (p. 123).
1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Prophet
“No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.”
Alexander's Bridge (1912) Ch. 8
Context: No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. Two people, when they love each other, grow alike in their tastes and habits and pride, but their moral natures (whatever we may mean by that canting expression) are never welded. The base one goes on being base, and the noble one noble, to the end.
1820s, Signs of the Times (1829)