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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.
Great abilities produce great vices as well as virtues.
Great abilities produce great vices as well as virtues.
Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
Nothing can cover his high fame but Heaven;
No pyramids set off his memories,
But the eternal read more
Nothing can cover his high fame but Heaven;
No pyramids set off his memories,
But the eternal substance of his greatness,--
To which I leave him.
The bigger they are, the further they have to fall.
The bigger they are, the further they have to fall.
Great and good are seldom the same man.
Great and good are seldom the same man.
No man was ever great without divine inspiration.
[Lat., Nemo vir magnus aliquo afflatu divino unquam fuit.]
No man was ever great without divine inspiration.
[Lat., Nemo vir magnus aliquo afflatu divino unquam fuit.]
The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing
that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire.
The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing
that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire.
Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions.
Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions.
