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Updated: July 24, 2025
Why should I, like a thief, any longer conceal a life, which in the counsels of the heavenly ministry has long been forfeited? ROBBERS. Let him go. He is infected with the great-man-mania; he means to offer up his life for empty admiration. CHARLES. I might, 'tis true, be admired for it. A reward has been offered of a thousand louis-d'ors to any one who shall deliver up the great robber alive.
He has the 'great-man-mania'. What attracts him in the career of crime is not the wickedness but the bigness of it; the opportunity of lifting himself above the common herd and sending his name down to posterity as that of a very extraordinary person.
The situation is not what he supposes, and the event will not be what he intends. He has the 'great-man-mania' hardly less than Karl Moor. Accustomed to follow his own light, to command and to be obeyed, and to look with contempt upon the interference of priests and courtiers in the business of war, he thinks himself omnipotent.
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