The world knows nothing of its greatest men.
The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.
Nationality is the aggregated individuality of the greatest men of the nation.
Men are but men, and the greatest men are they who soonest learn the simpler things.
In some way or other we are part of a single, all-embracing psyche, a single 'greatest man. . . .'
The greatest man in history was the poorest.