Greatness Quote by Jules Verne

There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.

— Thomas Browne

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

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

“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

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

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

The same principle leads us to neglect a man of merit that induces us to admire a fool. [Fr., Du meme fonds dont on…

— Jean de la Bruyere

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

— Horace

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

— Jean De La Bruyere

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

— Jean Giraudoux

There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a…

— Seneca the Younger