Maybe no great man is virtuous. Or good. Perhaps a man rich in those qualities by definition is barred from greatness.

Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

The great man is not so great as folks think, and the dull man is not quite so stupid as he seems. The difference in our estimates of men lies in the fact that one individual is able to get his goods into the show-window, and the other is not aware that he has any show-window or any goods.

...a great man. But...not quite great enough.

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

No man is great if he thinks he is.

The world’s great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men

For all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great one.

Two people rarely see the same thing.

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one.

Great men may make great mistakes;