Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes, War Quotes, Hero Quotes

Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

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Men who have sacrifice their well-being, and even their lives, for the cause of truth or the public good, are, from an empirical point of view - which scorn ("fait fi", Fr.) virtue and altruism - regarded as insane or fools; but, from a moral standpoint, they are heros who do honour ("qui honorent", Fr.) humanity.

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The best tragedies are conflicts between a hero and his destiny.

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These are nonviolent people who have lost their freedom simply because they expressed their ideas….In truth, they are heroes of our time.

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Mark Zuckerberg will be a hero to many young entrepreneurs 20 years from now. Bill Gates will be a hero to others, and they will look to those [people] like I read books when I was in my teens about Rockefeller or Carnegie.

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The world needs heroes and it's better they be harmless men like me than villains like Hitler

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Heroes are made in the hour of defeat

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I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man, or any of that. I'm a character actor.

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He who masters the grey everyday is a hero.

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Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment.

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Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.

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I shall not want Honor in Heaven For I shall meet Sir Philip Sidney And have talk with Coriolanus And other heroes of that kidney.

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A hero is a man who is afraid to run away.

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I sing, not arms and the hero, but the philosophic man: he who seeks in contemplation to discover the inner will of the world, ininvention to discover the means of fulfilling that will, and in action to do that will by the so-discovered means.

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If the black man is feeble and not important to the existing races, not on a parity with the best race, the black man must serve,and be exterminated. But if the black man carries in his bosom an indispensable element of a new and coming civilization; for the sake of that element, no wrong nor strength nor circumstance can hurt him: he will survive and play his part. So now, the arrival in the world of such men as Toussaint, and the Haytian heroes, or of the leaders of their race in Barbadoes and Jamaica, outweighs in good omen all the English and American humanity.

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Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues

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In every great novel, who is the hero all the time? Not any of the characters, but some unnamed and nameless flame behind them all.

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That the play is the tragedy, “Man,” And its hero, the Conqueror Worm.

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Truth is a pathless land.

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I think a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people.

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