“May the time come when rich men and great men would think it an honor to support whole stations of missionaries in Africa, instead of spending their money on hounds and horses.” ThinkingMenMayWholeSupportRichHonorHorseSpendingGreat MenStationsRich ManHounds Author:David Livingstone
“The cause of all the blunders committed by man arises from this excessive self-love. For the lover is blinded by the object loved; so that he passes a wrong judgment on what is just, good and beautiful, thinking that he ought always to honor what belongs to himself in preference to truth. For he who intends to be a great man ought to love neither himself nor his own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by himself, or by another.” ThinkingMenSelfDoneHappensBeautifulCausesObjectsOughtSelf LoveLoversHonorJudgmentCommittedAriseGreat MenPreferenceBlindedBlunders Author:Plato
“I love and honour [Paulus Aemilius, in Plutarch's Lives], for his fondness for his children, which instead of blushing at, he avows and glories in: and that at an age, when almost all the heros and great men thought that to make their children and family a secondary concern, was the first proof of their superiority and greatness of soul.” MenFirstsChildrenSoulAgeGreatnessHeroHonorGloryConcernProofGreat MenHonourSuperiorityFondnessBlushing Author:Fanny Burney
“Great men's honor ought always to be measured by the methods they made use of in attaining it.” MenMeanMadeUseOughtHonorMethodGreat Men Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld