Machiavelli advises in The Prince that the prince should strive "to bear himself so that greatness, courage, wisdom, and strength may appear in all his actions".
The virile man wasn't just sexually "assertive," "powerfully built," and "procreative," but also intellectually and emotionally "levelheaded, vigorous yet deliberate, courageous yet restrained": The virile is not simply what is manly; it is more: an ideal of power and virtue, self-assurance and maturity, certitude and domination.... courage and "greatness" accompanied by strength and vigor.
He detests the kind of realism that confounds greatness with strength and material success.
As if we didn't all have the capacity for weakness and strength, for greatness and for illness.
Danu's unique value is its ability to work from a future reference point that draws out the greatness, and builds upon the strengths, of both the donor and the recipient, thus creating a flourishing paradigm shift for a quadruple bottom-line: people, planet, profits and power within.
In developing Arkham City, Rocksteady Studios in London systematically attacked every aspect of the previous game that was holding it back from greatness and made those solutions into strengths.
I can only look at his remarks -- and I've seen them now several times -- and say that those are certainly not the vision that I have of America and its strength and its greatness and what its fundamental values and beliefs are.
Some people are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them".
Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
As the Bard wrote, "Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them".
