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Great men never make a bad use of their superiority; they see it, they feel it, and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.
Great men never make a bad use of their superiority; they see it, they feel it, and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.
Approximate author period: c. 1745 AD · early modern
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- Author or tradition
- Jean Jacques Rousseau
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- Approximate author period: c. 1745 AD · early modern
author lifetime midpoint (1712–1778)
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- Pearls of Thought (1881) (1881 AD)
Page 108 · printed citation: Rousseau · subject: Greatness
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