There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>