24.--When great men permit themselves to be cast down by the continuan… — Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
SAPIR 861
24.--When great men permit themselves to be cast down by the continuance of misfortune, they show us that they were only sustained by ambition, and not by their mind; so that PLUS a great vanity, heroes are made like other men.
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