All of them are extremely selfish but none of them is noble and magnanimous. The point is that from a psychological and philosophical point of view, there is another kind of greatness which does not depend on selfishness and which is called humanity. I have not yet seen how materialists explain away this aspect of the human being. Such a human being wishes to be noble and great, but not at the expense of another. One's spirit does not allow one to tell a lie.
Nobility is the opposite of baseness and a person avoids baseness completely.
Mussolini, the well-known Italian dictator, is reported to have said to a friend that he preferred to live like a lion for one year, rather than like a sheep for a hundred years. He insisted that his friend should not quote his words to anyone since his being a lion must mean that other people are sheep and if other people learned what Mussolini desired, they, too, would want to be lions in which case the dictator could no longer remain a lion. There is no nobleness in such an attitude. It is a person who wants all people to be lions rather than sheep in the world. The latter is not the correct meaning.