greatness Quotes

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of the field; and sometimes, if the stock be good, there springs up for a time a succession of splendid men; and then comes a period of... ...

No truly great person is completely free of some madness.

A great city should not be confused with just a crowded one.

The high-minded man does not bear grudges, for it is not the mark of a great soul to remember injuries, but to forget them.

And inasmuch as the great-souled man deserves most, he must be the best of men; for the better a man is the more he deserves, and he that is best deserves most. Therefore the truly great-souled man must be a... ...

Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

Greatness of spirit is accompanied by simplicity and sincerity.

Greatness of spirit is to bear finely both good fourtune and bad, honor and disgrace, and not to think highly of luxury or attention or power or victories in contests, and to possess a certain depth and magnitude of spirit.