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| A great man scorns to trample on a worm or to cringe to an emperor. Collier. | 1 |
| A great man’s word is like the elephant’s tusk. i.e., not to be concealed or withdrawn. Hindu. | 2 |
| Alas! by what trivial causes greatness is overthrown. Claudianus. | 3 |
| All great men are in some degree inspired. Cicero. | 4 |
| All things great men do are well done. | 5 |
| Great men have more adorers than friends. | 6 |
| Great men have reaching hands. Shakespeare. | 7 |
| Great men may jest with saints. German. | 8 |
| Great men must be employed to complete great changes in empire, but little men may begin them. Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine. | 9 |
| Great men’s requests are commands. German, Danish. | 10 |
| Great men’s servants don’t think little of themselves. German. | 11 |
| Great men’s vices are accounted sacred. | 12 |
| Great persons seldom see their faces in a true glass. | 13 |
| He is great whose failings can be numbered. Hebrew. | 14 |
| It belongs to great men to have great defects. French. | 15 |
| Mean men admire wealth—great men, glory. | 16 |
| The great man is he that does not lose his child’s heart. Mencius. | 17 |
| The greatest men are the simplest. | 18 |
| The vile are only vain, the great are proud. Byron. | 19 |
| Thunder showers and great men’s favors are always partial. | 20 |
| To be great we must know how to push our fortunes to the utmost. Rochefoucauld. | 21 |
| Towers are measured by their shadows and great men by their calumniators. Chinese. | 22 |
Who noble ends by noble means obtains,
Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains,
That man is great indeed. Pope. | 23 |
| Whom great men wrong they hate. | 24 |
| With great men one must allow five to be an even number. German. | 25 |
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