The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.
Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.
Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.
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.
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.
Men expect too much, do too little.
He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.
Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.