“It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.”
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“Precepts or maxims are of great weight and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.”
“I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.”
“There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destin us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.”
“I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.”
“He who has great power should use it lightly.”
“Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.”
“A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.”
“It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.”
“The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.”
“Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.”
“No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.”
“There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.”
“What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.”
“Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.”
“If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don't have love in your life, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.”
“A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.”
“However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.”
“The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.”
“Great things are done when men and mountains meet.”
“The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal the good one really does.”
“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.”
“Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.”
“Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.”