Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.
Paulo Coelho

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
Henry Ward Beecher

He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
Henry Ward Beecher

Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
Henry Ward Beecher

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The good of the people is the greatest law.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
Denis Waitley

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.
J. Paul Getty

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
Francis Bacon

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
Francis Bacon

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
Francis Bacon

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.
Francis Bacon