"An individual's greatness cannot be judged objectively by his or her contemporaries; the most objective evaluators of a person's greatness are people who belong to a later time."
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at the mean. That is to say, a monarch is judged by... - The greatness of individuals can be decided only by those who live after them,
not by their contemporaries... - The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way
its animals are treated.... - There is no such thing as a little country. the greatness of a people
is no more determined by their number than the greatness of a man is
determined by his height.
Victor Hugo (1802... - The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own
greatness,
in other words his own freedom and sincerity. --... - The greatness of a man can nearly always be measured
by his willingness to be kind. ... - The price of greatness is
responsibility... - Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and
without greatness.
Those who have greatness within them do not go in for... - There is a tendency for the person in the most powerful
position in an organisation to spend all of his or her time
serving on committees and signing letters.
Oeser's...
