Talent hits a target no one else can hit, Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.
The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.
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