Jean de la Bruyere Quotes About Greatness

Quotes about: Greatness

• False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least averts its face, and reveals itself only enough to create an illusion and not be recognized as the meanness that it really is. True greatness is free, kind, familiar and popular; it lets itself be touched and handled, it loses nothing by being seen at close quarters; the better one knows it, the more one admires it.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Greatness, Political, Politics

  "Of Personal Merit". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

• A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Greatness, Small Person, Great Person

• The nearer we come to great men the more clearly we see that they are only men. They rarely seem great to their valets.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Greatness, Men, Valet

• The Great slight the men of wit, who have nothing but wit; the men of wit despise the Great, who have nothing but greatness; the good man pities them both, if with greatness or wit they have not virtue.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Greatness, Men, Good Man

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