"Neither wealth or greatness render us happy." — Jean de La Fontaine

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• 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
• Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. — Marcus Aurelius
• There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility. — Abu Bakr
• No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and… — Charles Kendall Adams
• Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all… — Amelia Barr
• We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself. — Jean Baudrillard
• Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast… — Joseph Addison
• Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when… — Henry Ward Beecher
• He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own. — Henry Ward Beecher
• Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other. — Erma Bombeck
• The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out… — Napoleon Bonaparte

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