Great man Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.

— Voltaire

Many a man's vices have at first been nothing worse than good qualities run wild.

— Augustus William Hare

The vices of some men are magnificent.

— Charles Lamb

My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.

— Abraham Lincoln

Men are a luxury, not a necessity.

— Anonymous

A man must have vices, expensive ones if possible. Otherwise when he reaches old age he will have nothing to be redeemed from.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Most men are more willing to indulge in easy vices than to practise laborious virtues.

— Samuel Johnson

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“If a man has no vices, he's in great danger of making vices out of his virtues, and there's a spectacle. We've all seen…

— Thornton Wilder

Service makes men competent.

— Lyman Abbott

“because men that are free,well born,well bred,and conversant in honest companies have naturally an instinct and spur that prompteth them unto virtuous actions,and withdraws…

— Rabelais Francoise

There are some jobs in which it is impossible for a man to be virtuous.

— Aristotle