Quote by Simone de Beauvoir

The true virtue of human beings is fitness to live together as equals; claiming nothing for themselves but what they as freely concede to…

— John Stuart Mill

“The best and noblest parts of man depend precious little on culture, education, and whatever else it is called. One can never have enough…

— Wilhelm Von Humboldt

The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human beings from one another.

— Simone de Beauvoir

“Yet in its life, for eight hundred years, virtue alone, that one word, has illuminated and explained something of what we think we are,…

— Melvyn Bragg

“In demonstrating that humans behave with justice, tolerance, reason, love toward other forms of life, we are doing no more than demanding that humans…

— Edward Abbey

“that, when it comes to humanity, “the perfection of our nature and capability of happiness, must be estimated by the degree of reason, virtue,…

— Joseph Heath

The greatest human virtue bears no proportion to human vanity. We always think ourselves better than we are, and are generally desirous that others…

— Samuel Johnson

“Throughout the history of mankind, the virtues embraced by humanity have remained true, unwavering, and consistent.”

— Susan C. Young

“Though it may be the peculiar happiness of Socrates and other geniuses of his stamp, to reason themselves into virtue, the human species would…

— Rousseau

“Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.”

— Plato

[C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.

— Samuel Johnson

Each human being has been granted a virtue: the capacity to choose. For he who does not use this virtue, it becomes a curse…

— Paulo Coelho