Quote by Blaise Pascal
The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretc

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched. – Blaise Pascal

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Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes it fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way. – Blaise Pascal

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Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary. – Blaise Pascal

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As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that, hes a great military man, I want you to know that. – Norman Schwarzkopf

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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation. – Saint Augustine

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I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way – I hope it never will. – Arnold Schwarzenegger

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