greatness Quotes

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 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.

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.

I have talked with great men, and I do not see how they differ from others.

No truly great person is completely free of some madness.

“The greatest living person in the world is some individual who at this very moment has gone in love to help another.”

“For us the great men are not those who solved the problems, but those whodiscovered them.”

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... ...

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

Greatness of Soul seems therefore to be as it were a crowning ornament of the virtues; it enhances their greatness, and it cannot exist without them. Hence it is hard to be truly great-souled, for greatness of soul is impossible... ...

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."