Change Quote by Nicolas Chamfort

Men often are valued high, when they are most wretched.

— John Webster

There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal…

— Barry Goldwater

Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never known men of ability to be ungrateful.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A man can well afford to be as bold as brass, my good fellow, when he gets gold in exchange!

— Charles Dickens

Wherever desirable superfluities are imported, industry is excited, and thereby plenty is produced. Were only necessaries permitted to be purchased, men would work no…

— Benjamin Franklin

It is a mistake to imagine that potentially great men are rare. It is the conditions that permit the promise of greatness to be…

— Fred Hoyle

Millions of men give all their energies, as well as their very souls, for the acquisition of gold. And this will continue as long…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Materially we must strive to secure a broader economic opportunity for all men, so that each shall have a better chance to show the…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it. What noble enterprises have been checked and what fine souls have…

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

We commend a horse for his strength, and sureness of foot, and not for his rich caparisons; a greyhound for his share of heels,…

— Michel de Montaigne

I fear uniformity. You cannot manufacture great men any more than you can manufacture gold.

— John Ruskin