Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.

Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.

No really great man ever thought himself so.
- William Hazlitt,

No really great man ever thought himself so.
- William Hazlitt,

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.]

For he that once is good, is ever great.

For he that once is good, is ever great.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions.

Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions.

The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will
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The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will
get himself made out of anything he finds at hand.