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Calmness is always Godlike.

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Nothing is more simple than greatness indeed to be simple is to be great.

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A great man is always willing to be little.

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It is proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.

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To be simple is to be great.

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Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, a...more

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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has sim...more

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Misunderstood! It is a right fool's word. Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, an...more

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To be great is to be misunderstood.