One can be a hero without ravaging the earth.
Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
Whatever great advantages nature may give, it is not she alone, but fortune also that makes the hero.
The countenance of bravery has a share in the victory.
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.
A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.
