“Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.”
William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer
"Whether Genius is Conscious of its Powers?"
The Plain Speaker (1826)
“Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.”
Book 7, Ch. 50.
The Histories
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“It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.”
Plutarch (46–127) ancient Greek historian and philosopher
“With the great quality of egoism, great deeds and great merits became extinct.”
Oscar Levy (1867–1946) German physician and writer
Source: The Revival of Aristocracy (1906), p. 39.
“It was a great deed to conquer Carthage, but a greater deed to conquer death.”
Seneca the Younger book Epistulae morales ad Lucilium
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XXIV: On despising death
“A man is great by deeds, not by birth.”
Chanakya (-375–-283 BC) Ancient Indian statesman and philosopher
Brennan Manning (1934–2013) writer, American Roman Catholic priest and United States Marine
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“Pleasure and love are the pinions of great deeds.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Iphigenia in Tauris
Act II, sc. i
Iphigenie auf Tauris (1787)
“Great acts are made up of small deeds.”
Laozi (-604) semi-legendary Chinese figure, attributed to the 6th century, regarded as the author of the Tao Te Ching and fou…