The greatest men of a nation are those whom 20 it puts to death. Renan.
The greatest men of any age, those who become its leaders when there is a great march to be begun, are separated from the average intellects of their day by a distance which is immeasurable in ordinary terms of wonder. Ruskin.
The greatest men, whether poets or historians, live entirely in their own age, and the greatest faults of their works are gathered out of their own age. Ruskin.
The greatest men will be necessarily those who possess the best capacities, cultivated with the best habits. James Harris.
The greatest miracle of love is to eradicate flirtation. La Roche.
The greatest misfortune of all is not to be able 25 to bear misfortune. Bias.
The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is a still greater, which is the good man that comes to relieve it. Goldsmith.
The greatest of all economists are the fortifying virtues, which the wisest men of all time have arranged under the general heads of Prudence, or Discretion, the spirit which discerns and adopts rightly; Justice, the spirit which rules and divides rightly; Fortitude, the spirit which persists and endures rightly; and Temperance, the spirit which stops and refuses rightly. Ruskin.
The greatest of all injustice is that which goes under the name of law. L'Estrange.
The greatest of all perversities is to deny one's own nature and act contrary to its innate moral principle. Sophocles.