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Upstart greatness is everywhere less respected than ancient greatness.

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It is moments like these that force us to try harder, and dig deeper, and to discover gifts we never knew we had - to find the greatness that lies within each of us.

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My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it—all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary—but love it

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Greatness knows itself.

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Men achieve a certain greatness unawares when working to another aim.

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True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.

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Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die.

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A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members.

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Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain? The ability to suffer is a small matter: in that line, weak women and even slaves often attain masterliness. But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of it that is great, that belongs to greatness.

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Great occasions rouse even the lowest of human beings to some kind of greatness, but he alone is the really great man whose character is great always, the same wherever he be.

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Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.

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Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.

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He who possesses greatness is cruel towards his secondary virtues and considerations.

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Great as heaven and earth are, men still find some things in them with which to be dissatisfied. Thus it is that, were the superior man to speak of his way in all its greatness, nothing in the world would be found able to embrace it, and were he to speak of it in its minuteness, nothing in the world would be found able to split it.

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The greatness of literature cannot be determined solely by literary standards though we must remember that whether it is literature or not can be determined only by literary standards.

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A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing.

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All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do.... Build, therefore, your own world.

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The affirmative class monopolize the homage of mankind. They originate and execute all the great feats. What a force was coiled upin the skull of Napoleon!

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There are people who are so presumptuous that they know no other way to praise a greatness that they publicly admire than by representing it as a preliminary stage and bridge leading to themselves.

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Whoever no longer finds greatness in God no longer finds it anywhere--he must either deny it or create it.

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