Quote #9283
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it...
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Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the...
Quote #10354
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
Quote #15865
Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality the...
Quote #8748
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all...
Quote #14813
If you start throwing hedgehogs under me, I shall throw a couple of porcupines...
Quote #14669
We composers are at least as significant as the stars who make 14 million...
Quote #6971
There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.
Quote #19233
Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.
Quote #12920
If people really liked to work, we’d still be plowing the land with sticks...