Common Quote by Pope Pius II

Not gold but only men can makeA people great and strong;Men who for truth and honors sakeStand fast and suffer long. Brave men who…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Low class men desire wealth;middle class men both wealth and respect; but the noble, honour only; hence honour is the noble man's true wealth.

— Chanakya

Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong; men who, for truth and honor's sake, stand fast and suffer long.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Any man will go considerably out of his way to pick up a silver dollar; but here are golden words, which the wisest men…

— Henry David Thoreau

If a man be endowed with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility.

— Plato

“..Exchanging one's dreams and goals, character, and values, principles and integrity for something else, would be like swapping gold for silver:..”

— Rafael Garcia

For there is no virtue, the honour and credit for which procures a man more odium from the elite than that of justice; and…

— Plutarch

The esteem of good men is the reward of our worth, but the reputation of the world in general is the gift of our…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The gentleman is generous and treats all men as his equals, especially those whom he feels to be inferior in rank and wealth.

— Hilaire Belloc

In our daily intercourse with men, our nobler faculties are dormant and suffered to rust. None will pay us the compliment to expect nobleness…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

The world sees only the reflection of merit; therefore when you come to know a really great man intimately, you may as often find…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe