What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.
You must stand for something! It does not have to be grand, but it must be a positive that brings light to someone else's darkness.
The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
There are two types of men: the great and the small.
Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon.
Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
The line between greatness and obscurity is very, very small.
'The General Theory' was not truly revolutionary at all but merely old and oft-refuted mercantilist and inflationist fallacies dressed up in shiny new garb, replete with newly constructed and largely incomprehensible jargon.
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
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