Values Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about values.

Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

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Life is not in itself neither good nor bad, but the place of good or bad, depending on whether man practices one or the other.

Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

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Nobody fares badly for a long time without being at fault themselves.

Montesquieu

Montesquieu

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I prefer to quickly agree with most people rather than listen to them.

Montesquieu

Montesquieu

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It seems that our life increases when we can place it in the memory of others: It is a new life that we acquire and find precious.

Montesquieu

Montesquieu

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To be truly great, one must be with the people, not above them.

Montesquieu

Montesquieu

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Freedom consists of being able to do what one ought to do.

Montesquieu

Montesquieu

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Freedom is the right to do what the laws allow. If a citizen had the right to do what they prohibit, it would no longer be freedom, as anyone else would have the same right.

Montesquieu

Montesquieu

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Countries are not cultivated by reason of their fertility, but by reason of their freedom.

Mary Tyler Moore

Mary Tyler Moore

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One cannot be brave if only wonderful things have happened to them.

José Ortega y Gasset

José Ortega y Gasset

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not a sum of what we have been, but of what we long to be.

José Ortega y Gasset

José Ortega y Gasset

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Life takes on meaning when it becomes an aspiration to not give up on anything.