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A superior person brings out the best in others.
Heroes create circumstances; circumstances create heroes.
Great men regard death as going home.
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad man.
Therefore Lord, not only are you that than which a greater cannot be thought but you are also something greater than can be though ...
The first element of greatness is fundamental humbleness (this should not be confused with servility); the second is freedom from ...
Everybody comes along at the right time.... Leonardo was lucky because he came along at the right time. Oscar Wilde was lucky beca ...
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 ...
Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.
Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves. They do everything in their power not to have any. And therefo ...
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