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It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects.

The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will get himself made out of anything he finds at hand.

Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God.

A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.

That man is great, and he alone, Who serves a greatness not his own, For neither praise nor pelf: Content to know and be unknown: Whole in himself.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.

There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

Great abilities produce great vices as well as virtues.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Great men are rarely isolated mountain- peaks; they are the summits of ranges.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.

Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.

Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

Great and good are seldom the same man.