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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

— Horace Mann

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

The laws of nature are sublime, but there is a moral sublimity before which the highest intelligences must kneel and adore.

A Few Thoughts for a Young Man (1850)

Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.

Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann (1867)

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

Address at Antioch College (1859)

We do ourselves the most good doing something for others.

Thoughts (1901)

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We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook (1962)

To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.

Confucius

Greatness by nature includes a power, but not a will to power.

Martin Buber Between Man and Man (1965)

The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010)

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