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For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.


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For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.
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PAUL TILLICH We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
MOTHER THERESA If you can not do great things, Do small things in a great way.
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN There are thousands willing to do great things for one willing to do a small thing
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ALEXANDER THE GREAT I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.
PETER THE GREAT Our work is to present things that are as they are.
FREDERICK THE GREAT I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

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ALEXANDER THE GREAT Rogues, would you live forever?
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FREDERICK THE GREAT In trying to defend everything he defended nothing.
FREDERICK THE GREAT What is the good of experience if you do not reflect.
FREDERICK THE GREAT The heart itself is only a small vessel,
yet dragons are there, and lions,
there are poisonou...
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FREDERICK THE GREAT I must in the face of a storm, think, live and die as a king.
FREDERICK THE GREAT Every man must get to Heaven his own way.
FREDERICK THE GREAT I love opposition that has convictions.
FREDERICK THE GREAT A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
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FREDERICK THE GREAT Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings.
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FREDERICK THE GREAT I praise loudly, I blame softly
CATHERINE THE GREAT I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT O Athenians, what toil do I undergo to please you!
ALEXANDER, THE GREAT If I were not Alexander, then should wish to be Diogenes.
ALEXANDER, THE GREAT Talents go by nature not by birth.
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ALEXANDER THE GREAT I praise loudly. I blame softly.
CATHERINE THE GREAT I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army.
FREDERICK THE GREAT I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions.
CATHERINE THE GREAT I wish that the Indians believed me a god, for upon the report of an enemy's valor oftentimes de...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT He who defends everything defends nothing.
FREDERICK THE GREAT I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and ...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT Who does not desire such a victory by which we shall join places in our Kingdom, so far divided by n...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.
CATHERINE THE GREAT Oh! Most miserable wretch that I am! Why have I not learnt how to swim?
ALEXANDER THE GREAT Soldiers, I had lately like to have been taken from you by the attempt of a few desperate men, but b...
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ALEXANDER THE GREAT I do not pilfer victory.
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BASIL THE GREAT We love ourselves notwithstanding our faults, and we ought to love our friends in like manner.
CYRUS THE GREAT All men have their frailties; and whoever looks for a friend without imperfections, will never find ...
CYRUS THE GREAT Every man has a wild beast within him.
FREDERICK THE GREAT If we turn our backs of the Scythians who have provoked us, how shamefully shall we march against th...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.
CATHERINE THE GREAT When someone steals another's clothes, we call them a thief. Should we not give the same name to one...
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ALEXANDER THE GREAT I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
FREDERICK THE GREAT Feast of Gregory the Great, Bishop of Rome, Teacher, 604 All that which our blessed Saviour wroug...
GREGORY THE GREAT All religions must be tolerated, for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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LEO THE GREAT I have head the nightingale herself.
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FREDERICK THE GREAT Diplomacy without arms is like music without instruments.
FREDERICK THE GREAT The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and i...
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ALFRED, THE GREAT Do sometimes sink with their own weights. [Lat., Votre espril en donne aux autres.]
CATHERINE, THE GREAT The more a man knows, the more he forgives.
CATHERINE THE GREAT I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his.
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