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Greatness Quotes by Simone Weil
- The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.
- There are only two sorts of greatness: true greatness, which is of a spiritual order, and the old, old lie of world conquest. Conquest is…
- The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.
More Greatness Quotes
- Every great man is unique. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- For it is in giving that we receive. — Francis of Assisi
- Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves… — Henry Ward Beecher
- A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the… — Muhammad Ali
- No profession or occupation is more pleasing than the military; a profession or exercise both noble in execution (for the strongest, most… — Michel de Montaigne
- Th abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power. — William Shakespeare
- Consider now the Milky Way. Here also we see an innumerable dust, only the grains of this dust are no longer atoms… — Henri Poincare