The same principle leads us to neglect a man of merit that…

The same principle leads us to neglect a man of merit that induces us to admire a fool.

— Jean De La Bruyere

A fool is one whom simpletons believe to be a man on merit. [Fr., Un fat celui que les sots croient un homme de…

— Jean de la Bruyere

“Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire. A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.”

— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

A coxcomb is one whom simpletons believe to be a man of merit.

— Jean de la Bruyere

A coxcomb is the blockhead's man of merit.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Speak but little and well, if you would be esteemed as a man of merit.

— Richard Chenevix Trench

There is a season for man's merit as well as for fruit.

— Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld

A young man, be his merit what it will, can never raise himself; but must, like the ivy round the oak, twine himself round…

— Anonymous

“Man's merit lieth in service and virtue and not in the pageantry of wealth and riches.”

— Bahá'u'lláh

It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, so he be man of merit.

— Horace

There is a sort of natural instinct of human dignity in the heart of man which steels his very nerves not to bend beneath…

— Lajos Kossuth

It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.

— Horace

A man of merit owes himself to the homage of the rest of mankind who recognize his worth.

— Jules Verne

Ask any soldier. To kill a man is to merit a woman.

— Jean Giraudoux

I don't walk off and come back for encores. I figure I can add four weeks to my life that way.

— Colin Hay