Il n'appartient qu'aux grands hommes d'avoir de grands défauts.
Maxim 190.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
“We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves we have no great ones.”
François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
Nous n'avouons de petits défauts que pour persuader que nous n'en avons pas de grands.
Maxim 327.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
“He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.”
Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) French writer
Magnam habet cordis tranquillitatem, qui nec laudes curat, nec vituperia. — Thomas à Kempis, Imitation of Christ (ca. 1418), book II, ch. VI, paragraph 2.
Misattributed
“The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) Poet, essayist, physician
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858)
“It is only great men who take up a great space by not being there.”
G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English mystery novelist and Christian apologist
Lecture at the University of Notre Dame (13 October 1930), as quoted in notes taken by Professor Richard Baker, of the University of Dayton, and published in The Chesterton Review (Winter/Spring 1977)
“Men are only as great as they are kind.”
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul
“It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something.”
Anthony Trollope book Phineas Finn
Source: Phineas Finn (1869), Ch. 13
William Frederick Halsey, Jr. (1882–1959) United States admiral
Quoted in the Congressional Record, 11 December 1971 http://books.google.com/books?id=ltuwtwQcKHwC&q=%22There+are+no+great+men+there+are%22+%22only+great+challenges+which+ordinary+men+like+you+and+me+are++forced+by+circumstances+to+meet%22&pg=PA46480#v=onepage.
