Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.


Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales by the Right Honorable B. Disraeli: Coningsby (ed. 1879)


Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.

Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.

Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.

Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.