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

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

To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.

To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.

The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will
get himself made out of read more

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

Burn to be great,
Pay not thy praise to lofty things alone.
The plains are everlasting as read more

Burn to be great,
Pay not thy praise to lofty things alone.
The plains are everlasting as the hills,
The bard cannot have two pursuits; aught else
Comes on the mind with the like shock as though
Two worlds had gone to war, and met in air.

That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior
capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead.
[Lat., read more

That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior
capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead.
[Lat., Urit enim fulgore suo qui praegravat artes
Intra se positas; extinctus amabitur idem.]

Ajax the great . . .
Himself a host.

Ajax the great . . .
Himself a host.

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.

For he that once is good, is ever great.

For he that once is good, is ever great.

Great abilities produce great vices as well as virtues.

Great abilities produce great vices as well as virtues.