Values Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about values.

Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

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Even if I could make myself fearsome, I would prefer to make myself kind.

Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

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Every honorable person would rather lose honor than lose conscience.

Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

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Of all the benefits that virtue brings us, one of the greatest is the contempt for death.

Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

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He who does not live in some way for others, also does not live for himself.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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It is not enough for a wife to be faithful, it is necessary for her husband, her friends, and her neighbors to believe in her fidelity.

José Saramago

José Saramago

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The only ones interested in changing the world are the pessimists, because the optimists are delighted with what is.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson

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I don't ask for wealth, or hopes, or love, or a friend who understands me; all I ask for is the sky above me and a path at my feet.

Tacitus

Tacitus

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Purchased loyalty is always suspicious and, generally, short-lived.

Gonzalo Torrente Ballester

Gonzalo Torrente Ballester

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I cannot wish for the good ones to win, as I do not know who they are.

Miguel de Unamuno

Miguel de Unamuno

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I want to live and die in the army of the humble, joining my prayers to theirs, with the holy freedom of the obedient.

Miguel de Unamuno

Miguel de Unamuno

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Don't give someone what they ask for, but rather what you understand they need; and then endure the ingratitude.

Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert

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The best of life is spent saying 'it's too soon,' and then it's 'too late'.