Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes, Character Quotes, Greatness Quotes

....for friendships that are acquired by a price and not by greatness and nobility of character are purchased but are not owned, and at the proper moment they cannot be spent.

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In private places, among sordid objects, an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple, the sun as its cradle. Nature stretches out her arms to embrace man, only let his thoughts be of equal greatness.

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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.

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What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.

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The greatness of literature cannot be determined solely by literary standards though we must remember that whether it is literature or not can be determined only by literary standards.

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Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis? But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed, Though I have seen my head (grown slightly bald) brought in upon a platter, I am no prophet--and here's no great matter; I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, And in short, I was afraid.

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It is by no means necessary that a great nation should always stand at the heroic level. But no nation has the root of greatness in it unless in time of need it can rise to the heroic mood.

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A leader sees greatness in other people. He nor she can be much of a leader if all she sees is herself.

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There are people who are so presumptuous that they know no other way to praise a greatness that they publicly admire than by representing it as a preliminary stage and bridge leading to themselves.

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Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality.

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To seek greatness outside yourself is turn your back on the treasure within.

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In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them.

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It is not the actual greatness of national wealth, but its continual increase, which occasions a rise in the wages of labour. It is not, accordingly, in the richest countries, but in the most thriving, or in those which are growing rich the fastest, that the wages of labour are highest. England is certainly, in the present times, a much richer country than any part of North America. The wages of labour, however, are much higher in North America than in any part of England.

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SYCOPHANT- One who approaches Greatness on his belly so that he may not be commanded to turn and be kicked. He is sometimes an editor.

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Some are born great, others achieve greatness.

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No great thought, no great object, satisfies the mind at first view, nor at the last.

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That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead.

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Failing is another stepping-stone to greatness.

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By a certain fate, great acts, and great eloquence have most commonly gone hand in hand, equalling and honoring each other in the same ages.

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The stronger must dominate and not blend with the weaker, thus sacrificing his own greatness.

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