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It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants (Great Men Quotes)
To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing (Great Men Quotes)
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours (Great Men Quotes)
Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth (Great Men Quotes)
When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will. His class is extinguished with him. In some other and quite different field, the next man will appear (Great Men Quotes)
The temple of fame stands upon the grave: the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes of great men (Great Men Quotes)
The world’s great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men (Great Men Quotes)
Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood (Great Men Quotes)
Great art is precisely that which never was, nor will be taught, it is preeminently and finally the expression of the spirits of great men (Great Men Quotes)
The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men (Great Men Quotes)
The followers of a great man often put their eyes out, so that they may be the better able to sing his praise (Great Men Quotes)
Men worship the shows of great men; the most disbelieve that there is any reality of great men to worship (Great Men Quotes)
Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds (Great Men Quotes)
To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune (Great Men Quotes)
A great man will find a great subject, or which is the same thing, make any subject great (Great Men Quotes)
Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes (Great Men Quotes)
In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them (Great Men Quotes)
Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men (Great Men Quotes)
The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity (Great Men Quotes)
A great man knows the value of greatness; he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it (Great Men Quotes)
The world cannot do without great men, but great men are very troublesome to the world (Great Men Quotes)
He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men (Great Men Quotes)
Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable (Great Men Quotes)
It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude (Great Men Quotes)
Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit (Great Men Quotes)
Eh, brother, but nature has to be corrected and guided, otherwise we’d all drown in prejudices. Without that there wouldn’t be even a single great man (Great Men Quotes)
She was of the stuff of which great men’s mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, hated at tea parties, feared in shops, and loved at crises (Great Men Quotes)
For great men, religion is a way of making friends; small people make religion a fighting tool (Great Men Quotes)
The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones (Great Men Quotes)
Altogether it will be found that a quiet life is characteristic of great men, and that their pleasures have not been of the sort that would look exciting to the outward eye (Great Men Quotes)