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"He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero."
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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."
"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."
"Genius is nothing but continued attention."
"Genius without wisdom is like a plane without wings, it will navigate the runway but it will never know the sky."
"In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still."
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"I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness."
"Mistrust the person who finds everything good, and the person who finds everything evil, and mistrust even more the person who is indifferent to everything."
"The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers."
"You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad."
"He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love."
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