Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.
He was as great as a man can be without morality.
Great and good are seldom the same man.
Good character consists of recognizing the selfishness that inheres in each of us and trying to balance it against the altruism to which we should all aspire. It is a difficult balance to strike, but no definition of goodness can be complete without it.
Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses.
All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.
He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.
It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.