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"All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief."

Cicero, Marcus T. on pain
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"Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both. For they are linked together; sin makes us suffer and suffering makes us evil, and this indissoluble complex of suffering and sin is the evil in which we are submerged against our will, and to our horror."

Weil, Simone on evil    Share

"Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor."

Carrel, Alexis on suffering
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"The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on greatness    Share

"He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on greatness
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"To be great is to be misunderstood."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on greatness
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"The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender."

Booth, William on greatness
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"Man is only truly great when he acts from his passions."

Disraeli, Benjamin on greatness
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"The price of greatness is responsibility."

Churchill, Winston on greatness
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"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."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on greatness
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"I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great."

Charles, Ray on greatness
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"Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die."

Byron, Lord on greatness    Share

"Great people are meteors designed to burn so that the earth may be lighted."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on greatness
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"There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous."

Franklin, Benjamin on greatness
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"The essence of greatness is neglect of the self."

Froude, James A. on greatness    Share

"None think the great unhappy, but the great."

Young, Edward on greatness    Share

"All my life I have always known I was born to greatness."

Winfrey, Oprah on greatness    Share

"If you would attain greatness, think no little thoughts."

Unknown, Source on greatness    Share

"Being too good is apt to be uninteresting."

Truman, Harry S on greatness    Share

"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them. [Twelfth Night]"

Shakespeare, William on greatness
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"Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on greatness
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"A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort."

Ruskin, John on greatness    Share

"To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on greatness
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"Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grace. a soul generated by love."

King Jr. Martin Luther on greatness
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"No one ever became great by imitation."

Johnson, Samuel on greatness
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"After a fellow gets famous it does not take long for someone to bob up that used to sit next to him in school."

Hubbard, Kin on greatness    Share

"He who reins within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king"

Milton, John on self-control
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"Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward."

Hill, Napoleon on self-control
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"He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior."

Confucius on self-control
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"Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves."

Confucius on revenge
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"If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?"

Shakespeare, William on revenge
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"To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage, or of principle."

Confucius on perception
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"Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world."

Beckett, Samuel on happiness    Share

"Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss."

Beckett, Samuel on parents and parenting    Share

"The bastard! He doesn't exist!"

Beckett, Samuel on god    Share

"I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed."

Angelou, Maya on god
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"It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great."

Confucius on truth
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"If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people."

Confucius on teacher
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"There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy."

Rudnick, Paul on blasphemy    Share

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