Famous quotes containing the words true and/or hero:
“It is true that men themselves made this world of nations ... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves.”
—Giambattista Vico (1688–1744)
“The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)