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"Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more."
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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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"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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"If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators."
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"What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero."
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"Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough."
Love
"Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at all seasons, madam: that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals."
Love
"I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep."
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"Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more."
Genius
"If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it."
Saying
"Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick."
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"It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them."
Argument
"As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything."
Government
"I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry."
Fear
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