The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.
Like pictures, men should be judged by their merits and not by their defects.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
Men are only as great as they are kind.
There are two types of men: the great and the small.
The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.
Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.