A Quote by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
No man is a hero to his valet de chamber
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Nobody, they say, is a hero to his valet. Of course; for a man must be a hero to understand a hero. The valet, I dare say, has great respect for some person of his own stamp.
No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is no hero, but because the valet is a valet.
It is said that no man is a hero to his valet. That is because a hero can be recognized only by a hero.
No man is a hero to his own valet.
A man must indeed be a hero to appear such in the eyes of his valet.
To a valet no man is a hero.
To a valet no man is a hero.
[Ger., Es gibt fur den Kammerdiener keiner Helden.]
P. Diddy gave me his valet ticket once... because he thought I was the valet lady.
No hero is a hero if he ever killed someone! Only the man who has not any blood in his hand can be a real hero! The honour of being a hero belongs exclusively to the peaceful people!
He was a hero to his valet, who bullied him, and a terror to most of his relations, whom he bullied in turn. Only England could have produced him, and he always said that the country was going to the dogs. His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices.
The difference between a man and his valet: they both smoke the same cigars, but only one pays for them.
A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress, by his tastes, by his distastes, by the stories he tells, by his gait, by the notion of his eye, by the look of his house, of his chamber; for nothing on earth is solitary but every thing hath affinities infinite.
Amy gritted her teeth. "King Louis XVI even put Franklin's picture on a chamber pot!" Jonah looked at his dad. "Do we have souvenir chamber pots?" "No." His dad whipped out his phone. "I'll make the call.
The hero was distinguished by his achievement; the celebrity by his image or trademark. The hero created himself; the celebrity is created by the media. The hero was a big man; the celebrity is a big name.
It is not vain glory for a man and his glass to confer in his own chamber.
A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey, or a crummy mediocre politician. A man can be a hero because he suffers and despairs; or because he thinks logically and analytically; or because he is "sensitive"; or because he is cruel. Wealth establishes a man as a hero, and so does poverty. Virtually any circumstance in a man's life will make him a hero to some group of people and has a mythic rendering in the culture - in literature, art, theater, or the daily newspapers.
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