It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.

-- William Cobbett 威廉·科贝特

使一个人独立的，与其说是他的经济条件好，不如说是他的需要少。

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The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.

领导的任务不是让人们变得伟大，而是激发人们的伟大，因为伟大已经存在。

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Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

伟人的渺小与其他所有人的不相称，使其显得渺小。

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The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.

一个人的力量有多大，就看他能不能降服。

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