greatest quotes

“Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.”

“The greatest wealth is to live content with little. ”

“The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.”

“Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.”

“Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.”

“Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good”

“We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue. ”

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“I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person.”

“You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.”

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

“One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.”

— Mother Teresa

“Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness.”

— Hippocrates

“A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.”

— Hippocrates

“The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”

“These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived. ”

— Winston Churchill

“One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

“Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.”

— Thomas Jefferson

“No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.”

“Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.”

“We should seek the greatest value of our action. ”

— Stephen Hawking

“The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes. ”

“The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.”

— Honore de Balzac

“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.”

“The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

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