Arthur Quote by Anonymous

The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.

— Erica Jong

One must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even against common sense." "Or else a fool.

— Anonymous

When great men permit themselves to be cast down by the continuance of misfortune, they show us that they were only sustained by ambition,…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Every decent man of our time is and is bound to be a coward and a slave. This is his normal condition. I am…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

He read biographies of great men from their ideal values can not become great;

— Mak_786

“I agree that is it important to be of a virtuous nature, but I would also contend that if you had to choose between…

— Christopher Paolini

“...a great man who is vicious will only be a great doer of evil, and a rich man who is not liberal will be…

— Miguel Cervantes

“Determination is as common among men who are dull and foolish as it is among those who are brilliant intellects.”

— Christopher Paolini

With his continual doctrine [Bishop Hooper] adjoined due and discreet correction, not so much severe to any as to them which for abundance of…

— John Foxe

“The tendency of a person to allow himself to be degraded, robbed, deceived, and exploited might be the diffidence of a God among men.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“There must come a time when good men must lose their personalities and stand up for "ALL" men who had been oppressed by the…

— Henry Johnson Jr

[The satirist] must fully possess, at least in the world of the imagination, the quality the lack of which he is deriding in others.

— Rebecca West