Quotes with littleness

?? François de La Rochefoucauld (writer)

The most brilliant fortunes are often not worth the littleness required to gain them.

~ François de La Rochefoucauld (writer)

?? Bertrand Russell

No man is liberated from fear who dare not see his place in the world as it is; no man can achieve the greatness of which he is capable until he has allowed himself to see his own littleness.

~ Bertrand Russell

Dreams and Facts (1919).