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"It is a great thing, indeed, to make a proper use of the poetical forms, as also of compounds and strange words. But the greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor. It is the one thing that cannot be learnt from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity in dissimilars."
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"What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around."
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"I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control."
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"Ah, Senor Zhang," Leo said, "you know how you're always saying, 'Leo, you are the only true genius among demigods'?""I'm pretty sure I never said that."
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"Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way."
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"A genius does what he masters. An ordinary man tries to master what he does."
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"A genius is a grown-up that did not grow up."
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"Genius - the pursuit of madness."
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"This was genius at close quarters, and genius had that something above normal in it that was a great strain upon the ordinary mind and feeling. All five were different from each other, yet each had that curious quality of burning intensity, the single-mindedness of purpose that made such a terrifying impression. She did not know whether it were a quality of brain or rather a quality of outlook, of intensity. But each of them, she thought, was in his or her way a passionate idealist."
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"Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite."
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"Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training."
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"Human beings are by nature political animals."
Citizenship
"The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness."
Wisdom
"One can with but moderate possessions do what one ought."
Simplicity
"For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy."
Success
"The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit."
Wisdom
"Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics."
Philosophy
"The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom."
Wisdom
"Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age."
Education
"Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular."
Philosophy
"Every skill and every inquiry, and similarly every action and rational choice, is thought to aim at some good; and so the good had been aptly described as that at which everything aims."
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