"An excellent man, like precious metal, is in……" — John Locke

Related Quotes

• Man (in good earnest) is a marvellous vain, fickle, and unstable subject, and on whom it is very hard to… — Michel de Montaigne
• I see on a immense scale, and as clearly as in a demonstration in a laboratory, that good comes out… — John Burroughs
• A great man is one who can have power and not abuse it. — Henry Latham Doherty
• A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite… — Agnes Repplier
• Every man, however obscure, however far removed from the general recognition, is one of a group of men impressible for… — Charles Dickens
• A man has generally the good or ill qualities which he attributes to mankind. — William Shenstone
• The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on… — Theodor Adorno
• There is no man suddenly either excellently good or extremely evil, but grows either as he holds himself up in… — Philip Sidney
• The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice. — John Rawls
• The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character. — Dwight D. Eisenhower