Antoine Rivarol
Antoine Rivarol

Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.

Bernard Joseph Saurin
Bernard Joseph Saurin

Valor is common but great souls are rare.

Friedrich Schiller
Friedrich Schiller

Great souls suffer in silence.

Henri Frederic Amiel
Henri Frederic Amiel

Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.

Henry Fielding
Henry Fielding

Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.