Age Quote by Edward Gibbon

...the life which is best for men, both separately, as individuals, and in the mass, as states, is the life which has virtue sufficiently…

— Aristotle

“He is happy who lives in accordance with complete virtue and is sufficiently equipped with external goods, not for some chance period but throughout…

— Aristotle

Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind.

— Henry David Thoreau

In the second century of the Christian era, the Empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilised portion…

— Edward Gibbon

For more than twenty years he [Blanchard] toiled on through the most fatiguing paths of literary composition, mostly in periodicals, often anonymously; pleasing and…

— Samuel Laman Blanchard

Renown is something people have always wanted, but maybe what's modern is that it's considered a virtue, this desire, rather than a vice. I…

— Sheila Heti

I'll plant and water, sow and weed, Till not an inch of earth shows brown, And take a vow of each small seed To…

— E. Nesbit

Fame requires every kind of excess. I mean true fame, a devouring neon, not the sombre renown of waning statesmen or chinless kings.

— Don DeLillo

Science in England is not a profession: its cultivators are scarcely recognised even as a class. Our language itself contains no single term by…

— Charles Babbage

To set the cause above renown.

— Henry Newbolt

There are decades in the making of the one man of renown; Multitudes that go unnoticed who must wreathe for him a crown.

— Christopher Paolini

It is not possible to be regarded with tenderness, except by a few. That merit which gives greatness and renown diffuses its influence to…

— Samuel Johnson