Famous quotes containing the words base, form and/or ends:
“Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin.”
—Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)
“Have you never been moved by poor men’s fidelity, the image of you they form in their simple minds? Why should you always talk of their envy, without understanding that what they ask of you is not so much your worldly goods, as something very hard to define, which they themselves can put no name to; yet at times it consoles their loneliness; a dream of splendor, of magnificence, a tawdry dream, a poor man’s dream—and yet God blesses it!”
—Georges Bernanos (1888–1948)
“Childhood and youth are ends in themselves, not stages.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)