Greatness-Smallness

The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough. (Emerson)

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. (Edmund Burke)

All the glory of greatness has no lustre for people who are in search of understanding. (Pascal)

Of all virtues, magnanimity is the rarest. There are a hundred persons of merit for one who willingly acknowledges it in another. (William Hazlitt)

Desire of greatness is a godlike sin. (John Dryden)

Small is beautiful. (Schumacher)