No really great man ever

“To think ill of mankind, and not to wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.”     William Hazlitt

“Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.”     William Hazlitt

“The great thought, the great concern, the great anxiety of men is to restrict, as much as possible, the limits of their own responsibility.”     Giosue Borsi

“Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.”     General Charles De Gaulle

“There was this huge world out there, independent of us human beings and standing before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partly accessible to our inspection and thought. The contemplation of that world beckoned like a liberation.”     Albert Einstein