The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

Great and small suffer the same mishaps

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.

It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause.