It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.
There is a melancholy that stems from greatness.
The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
It is doubtless true that men are bad because they are unhappy. If anyone could give them real happiness, the happiness of brotherhood, they would all want to live the true and brotherly life.
Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery.
Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.
It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.
In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
Great men marry great women.
Men often are valued high, when they are most wretched.
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