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Great souls suffer in silence.
Valor is common but great souls are rare.
To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.
He who would be a great soul in the future, must be a great soul now.
Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
Dans une grande a" me tout est grand. In a great soul everything isgreat.
Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.
Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.
Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.
Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.
He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.