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“The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.”

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Max Beerbohm was an English essayist and satirist known for his wit and satirical style. His works often focused on social and cultural satire, offering profound insights into the customs of his time and the literary world. more

“False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least averts its face, and reveals itself only enough to create an illusion and not be recognized as the meanness that it really is. True greatness is free, kind, familiar and popular; it lets itself be touched and handled, it loses nothing by being seen at close quarters; the better one knows it, the more one admires it.”

Knows Kind Enough Faces Political Politics Loses Greatness Illusion Conscious Familiar Admire Touched Quarters Meanness Frailty Avert True Greatness

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.”

Long Virtue Greatness Submit Prudence Dominion

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)

“A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation.”

Mind Persons Generations Greatness Great Person

Author:Benjamin Disraeli

“Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon -but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx -the world went around, it didn't stop for a second. It's sad but true. John Kennedy, right?”

World Looks Mean Has Beens Born Gone Greatness Died Despite Sad But True John Kennedy

Author:Bob Dylan

“At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament, except they be so incorporated into the body of the world that they contribute something to the sustentation of the whole.”

Men World Persons Whole Body Moral Greatness Conversation Wit Delightful Ornaments Greatness Of Man

Author:John Donne

“It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.”

Men God Security Greatness Frail Frailty True Greatness

Author:Seneca the Younger

“The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.”

Men Inspirational Stills Light Age Stars Century Greatness Personality Genius Died Great Men Radiation

Author:Khalil Gibran

“In historic events, the so-called great men are labels giving names to events, and like labels they have but the smallest connection with the event itself. Every act of theirs, which appears to them an act of their own will, is in an historical sense involuntary and is related to the whole course of history and predestined from eternity.”

Men Giving Whole Courses Names History Events Greatness Connections Eternity Historical Labels Related Great Men Smallest Historic Involuntary Predestined

Author:Leo Tolstoy

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