Goethe, Johann Von

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

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Johnson, Samuel

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

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Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.

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Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.

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Montaigne, Michel De

'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.

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Moore, George

The mind petrifies if a circle be drawn around it, and it can hardly be that dogma draws a circle round the mind.

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Seneca

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

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Seneca

There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.

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Spenser, Edmund

It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

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