Author » Heine, Heinrich
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Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.
If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin they would never have found time to conquer the world.
The foolish race of mankind are swarming below in the night; they shriek and rage and quarrel -- and all of them are right.
While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look on them as virtues.