value Quotes

Friendship is a thing most necessary to life, since without friends no one would choose to live, though possessed of all other advantages.

Those who teach children well deserve more honor than those who simply give birth to them; parents give life, but teachers provide the skill of living well.

Honesty requires us to value truth above our friends.

Education is a valuable asset when things are going well and a safe haven when things are hard.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

Shipping magnate of the 20th century If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

That which is excellent endures.

It is evident, then, that there is a sort of education in which parents should train their sons, not as being useful or necessary, but because it is liberal or noble.

No one praises happiness as one praises justice, but we call it a 'blessing,' deeming it something higher and more divine than things we praise.