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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
Responsibility is the price of greatness.
Responsibility is the price of greatness.
Be good and you will be lonely
Be good and you will be lonely
Great and good are seldom the same man.
Great and good are seldom the same man.
Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding
the secret to another soul.
Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding
the secret to another soul.
Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions.
Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions.
Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
To be great is to be misunderstood.
To be great is to be misunderstood.
That man is great, and he alone,
Who serves a greatness not his own,
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That man is great, and he alone,
Who serves a greatness not his own,
For neither praise nor pelf:
Content to know and be unknown:
Whole in himself.