Values Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about values.

Heinrich Heine

Heinrich Heine

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A friend asked me why we don't build cathedrals like the famous Gothic ones nowadays, and I said to him: 'The men of those times had convictions; we moderns have nothing but opinions, and to raise a Gothic cathedral, something more than an opinion is needed'.

Horace

Horace

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Seize the day (seize the present day). Words that remind us that life is short and we must hurry to enjoy it.

Horace

Horace

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Virtue is the midpoint between two opposite vices.

Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

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The surest sign of wisdom is constant serenity.

Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

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The clearest proof of wisdom is continuous joy.

Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

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True freedom consists of absolute self-mastery.

Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

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Trust in the goodness of others is no small testimony to one's own goodness.

Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

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A hundred times a day we mock our own faults by criticizing them in others.

Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig

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Every shadow is, after all, a daughter of light and only those who have known the clarity and the darkness, the war and the peace, the rise and the fall, only they have truly lived.