Great men Quote by Pierre Corneille

All great virtues become great men.

— Pierre Corneille

Dans une grande a" me tout est grand. In a great soul everything isgreat.

— Blaise Pascal

He that can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility, proves that…

— Charles Caleb Colton

There is no man so great as not to have some littleness more predominant than all his greatness. Our virtues are the dupes, and…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Soyons fermes, purs et fidèles ; au bout de nos peines, il y a la plus grande gloire du monde, celle des hommes qui…

— Charles de Gaulle

“Virtue is excellence, something uncommonly great and beautiful, which rises far above what is vulgar and ordinary.”

— Adam Smith

The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal. [Lat., Divitarum et formae gloria fluxa atque fragilis;…

— Sallust

VIRTUES, n.pl. Certain abstentions.

— Ambrose Bierce

“This disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons of poor…

— Adam Smith

A young man with a very good past. [Fr., Un jeune homme d'un bien beau passe.]

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

“The noble man is chiefly concerned with wisdom and friendship; of these, the former is a mortal good, the latter and immortal one.”

— Epicurus

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

— Aristotle