Famous Quotes

"Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld on Great

More quotes about Great

• "Great minds discuss ideas average minds discuss events small minds discuss people."

  Eleanor Roosevelt on Great

• "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."

  Albert Einstein on Great

• "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."

  William Shakespeare on Great

• "One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak."

  Gilbert K. Chesterton on Great

• "All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope."

  Winston Churchill on Great

More quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

• "It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures."

• "Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth."

• "The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age."

• "It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone."

• "Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected."