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Great Men Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
- All great men are play actors of their own ideal.
- The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.
- The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.
- It is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men.
- Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal.
- The followers of a great man often put their eyes out, so that they may be the better able to sing his praise.
- A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them.
- What? A great man? I only ever see the ape of his own ideal.
- The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,' and altogether everything…
- Success has always been the greatest liar - and the "work" itself is a success; the great statesman, the conqueror, the discoverer is disguised by…
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