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What the great learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence. – Confucius	added by rinat 4 years ago
You have to understand my relationship with my sister – we have been through a hell of a lot together, everybody is like 'look, you come from this illustrious family, and everything is easy'. Actually it's not so easy. My father was assassinated, my grandmother was assassinated, huge political battles, wins in political battles, losses in political battles. – Indira Gandhi	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Illustrious examples engross, prejudice, and intimidate. They engross our attention, and so prevent a due inspection of ourselves; they prejudice our judgment in favor of their abilities, and so lessen the sense of our own; and they intimidate us with the – Edward Young	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato?the only good belonging to him is underground. – Sir Thos Overbury	added by anonymous 12 years ago
It is folly for an eminent person to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected by it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age, have passed through this fiery persecution. There is no defense against reproach but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph. – Joseph Addison	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground. – Thomas Overbury	added by anonymous 14 years ago

What the great learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence.

– Confucius

added by rinat
4 years ago

You have to understand my relationship with my sister – we have been through a hell of a lot together, everybody is like 'look, you come from this illustrious family, and everything is easy'. Actually it's not so easy. My father was assassinated, my grandmother was assassinated, huge political battles, wins in political battles, losses in political battles.

– Indira Gandhi

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Illustrious examples engross, prejudice, and intimidate. They engross our attention, and so prevent a due inspection of ourselves; they prejudice our judgment in favor of their abilities, and so lessen the sense of our own; and they intimidate us with the

– Edward Young

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato?the only good belonging to him is underground.

– Sir Thos Overbury

added by anonymous
12 years ago

It is folly for an eminent person to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected by it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age, have passed through this fiery persecution. There is no defense against reproach but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph.

– Joseph Addison

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.

– Thomas Overbury

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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