Great men Quote by Aristotle Download Open image “Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.” — Aristotle ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Great men Melancholy Men Nature Temperament
Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions. — David Hume Copy Share Image
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Great men suffer hours of depression through introspection and self-doubt. That is why they are great. That is why you will find modesty and… — Bruce Barton Copy Share Image
Men seek to be great; they would have offices, wealth, power, and fame. They think that to be great is to possess one side… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is a very melancholy reflection that men are usually so weak that it is absolutely necessary for them to know sorrow and pain… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The lower sort of men must be indulged the consolation of finding fault with those above them; without that, they would be so melancholy… — George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax Copy Share Image
The majority of great men are the offspring of unhappy marriages. — Hermann Graf Keyserling Copy Share Image
The knowledge of the soul admittedly contributes greatly to the advance of truth in general, and, above all, to our understanding of Nature, for… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five; the mind is at its best about the age of forty-nine. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Although it may be difficult in theory to know what is just and equal, the practical difficulty of inducing those to forbear who can,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The true forms of government, therefore, are those in which the one, or the few, or the many, govern with a view to the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Give a man a poisoned fish, you feed him for the rest of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I think the next 50 years are going to present the human race with challenges that so far exceed the limitations of geopolitical boundaries… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
“You are destiny for greatness. Your future is in the hands of the Lord.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority,… — John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton Copy Share Image
“The origins of great companies inevitably start with the ideas and enterprise of great men.” — Bill Scott Copy Share Image
A wholesome regard for the memory of the great men of long ago is the best assurance to a people of a continuation of… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
My father was a really great man. I'll never forget the last thing he ever said to me. Nor will I ever repeat it. — John S. Hall Copy Share Image
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
First at the outset, let me commend the great men and women of the United States Coast Guard for what they do. — Vito Fossella Copy Share Image
Greatness by nature includes a power, but not a will to power. ... The great man, whether we comprehend him in the most intense… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
