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

“Submission to what people call their 'lot' is simply ignoble. If your lot makes you cry and be wretched, get rid of it and take another.”

“To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.”

“Death did this to people: making cowards, scapegoats, preachers and mourners of the living; while the dead – ignoble or not – became objects of respect for achieving something before the rest of us.”

“Chickenshit is so called - instead of horse- or bull- or elephant shit - because it is small-minded and ignoble and takes the trivial seriously.”

“Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men.Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.”