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"No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness."
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"To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill."
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"The essence of genius is to know what to overlook."
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"Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent."
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"Genius is childhood recalled at will."
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"Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last."
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"A genius is a grown-up that did not grow up."
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"A genius does what he masters. An ordinary man tries to master what he does."
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"There is no great genius without some touch of madness."
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"One who knows what he or she knows as well as what he or she does not know is a genius."
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"For 37 years I've practiced 14 hours a day, and now they call me a genius."
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"Quality is not an act, it is a habit."
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"Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal."
Democracy
"We shall learn the qualities of governments in the same way as we learn the qualities of individuals, since they are revealed in their deliberate acts of choice; and these are determined by the end that inspires them."
Politics
"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."
Art
"In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels."
Relationship
"The ideal man, takes joy in doing favours for others; but he feels ashamed to have others do favours for him. For it is a mark of superiority to confer a kindness; but it is a mark of inferiority to receive it."
Kindness
"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous."
Nature
"The physician heals Nature makes well."
Healing
"That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal."
Progress
"The truth is that, just as in the other imitative arts one imitation is always of one thing, so in poetry the story, as an imitation of action, must represent one action, a complete whole, with its several incidents so closely connected that the transposal or withdrawal of any one of them will disjoin and dislocate the whole. For that which makes no perceptible difference by its presence or absence is no real part of the whole."
Literature
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