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No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is no hero, but because the valet is a valet. (Ambrose Stephen)
Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions. (Ambrose Stephen)
What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes --ah, they have all the necessary leisure. (Ambrose Stephen)
The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow. (Ambrose Stephen)
Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials. (Ambrose Stephen)
Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. (Ambrose Stephen)
A hero is someone we can admire without apology. (Ambrose Stephen)
There are heroes in evil as well as in good. (Ambrose Stephen)
Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated. (Ambrose Stephen)
The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers. (Ambrose Stephen)
All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person, and long ago we were over and done with the business of a hero, and here it comes up again: the glorification of one personality. This is not good at all. I am just like everybody else. (Ambrose Stephen)
What is a hero without love for mankind. (Ambrose Stephen)
And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods? (Ambrose Stephen)
Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation. (Ambrose Stephen)
In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one. (Ambrose Stephen)
The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference. (Ambrose Stephen)
Calculation never made a hero. (Ambrose Stephen)
No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one. (Ambrose Stephen)
One murder makes a villain, millions often a hero. (Ambrose Stephen)
A hero is a man who is afraid to run away. (Ambrose Stephen)
As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost. (Ambrose Stephen)
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