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"Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius."
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"Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!"
"The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs."
"Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more."
"It is the union of independence and dependence of these branches - legislative, executive and judicial - and of the governmental functions possessed by each of them, that constitutes the marvellous genius of this unrivalled document."
"Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent."
"Of all the things in the world, I'm particularly amazed at, is the conviction with which the MIND, endorses an Idea, which is phenomenal, as it differentiates the Genius from Mediocre, or not to forget the human stupidity in particular!"
"To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius."
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"A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory."
"From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be."
"The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history."
"Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin."
"One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one."
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