1. “The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand.”
2. “Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.”
3. “Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception tan the rule among exceptional men, not speak of geniuses.”
4. “God and I both knew what i meant once; now God alone knows.”
5. “Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.”
6. “The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities.”
7. “It is a sad mission to cut through ad destroy with the scissors o analysis the delicate and iridescent veils with which our proud mediocrity clothes itself.”
