Defined Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Of all virtues, magnanimity is the rarest. There are a hundred persons of merit for one who willingly acknowledges it in another.

— William Hazlitt

Magnanimity consists in enduring tactlessness with mildness.

— Democritus

It is perhaps common in the world for individuals and nations to suffer for their noble qualities more than for their ignoble ones. For…

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.

— Samuel Johnson

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

— Blaise Pascal

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When a noble deed is done, who is likely to appreciate it? They who are noble themselves.

— Henry David Thoreau

But Pride always means enmity -- it is enmity. And not only enmity between man and man, but enmity to God.

— Anonymous

Nobleness was one word for making a fuss about the trivial inevitabilities of life, but there were others.

— Douglas Adams

There are occasions on which it is noble to dare to stand alone. To be pious among infidels, to be disinterested in a time…

— Samuel Johnson

A virtue which is divine is humility.

— Radhanath Swami

“Pride consists in an unduly exalted opinion of one's self. It is, therefore, impatient of a rival, hates a superior, and cannot endure a…

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon