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Exlpore more Genius quotes
"Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent."
"A genius is a grown-up that did not grow up."
"A genius does what he masters. An ordinary man tries to master what he does."
"Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius."
"Genius is nothing but continued attention."
Explore more quotes by Denis Diderot
"People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm."
"It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire."
"It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all."
"Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey."
"The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law."
"In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go."
"The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population."
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