Source: Winds of Doctrine: Studies in Contemporary Opinion
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Source: The Autobiography of Margot Asquith
“To know the great men dead is compensation for having to live with the mediocre.”
Source: Medea
“Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.”
Source: A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions
Source: Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans
“Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for.”
Source: Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans
“Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.”
Source: Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers
Source: All Manner of Folk: Interpretations and Studies
Source: Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays
“To survive the day is triumph enough for the walking wounded among the great many of us.”
Source: The Studs Terkel Reader: My American Century
Source: The Price of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses
Source: My Own Story: Top Biography
“When we play the part of a great man too much, we seem very small.”
Source: Two Cheers for Democracy
Source: The Collected Works of Sigmund Freud: Psychoanalytic Studies, Theoretical Essays & Articles: The Interpretation of Dreams, Psychopathology of Everyday Life, Dream Psychology, Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex, The History of the Psychoanalytic Movement, Leonardo da Vinci…
“Without a great man writing and directing for me, I realised I was a mediocre movie star at best.”