„Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.“

— Aristotle

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„Nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs, is overspread with melancholy today. Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
„Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, — the balance-wheel of the social machinery.“
— Horace Mann
„A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them.“
— Friedrich Nietzsche
„Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on Earth.“
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
„Men are always more inclined to pitch their estimate of the enemy's strength too high than too low, such is human nature.“
— Carl von Clausewitz