Today Quotes
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To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness.William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.William Hazlitt
A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... it has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival.C. S. Lewis
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.Ghandi, 1931
Before we acquire great power, we must acquire wisdom to use it well.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth is subject to too much analysis.Frank Herbert, Dune