"If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants." - Lao TzuTweet
"The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched." - Blaise PascalTweet
"Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory." - Orison Swett MardenTweet
"When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich." - Honore de BalzacTweet
"There is no great genius without some touch of madness." - Lucius Annaeus SenecaTweet
"Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm." - Oscar WildeTweet
"Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion." - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelTweet
"To know how to hide one's ability is great skill." - Francois de La RochefoucauldTweet
"A great artist is always before his time or behind it." - George Edward MooreTweet
"He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame a passion which is the instinct of all great souls." - Edmund BurkeTweet