Quote by Denis Diderot
Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within the

Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth. – Denis Diderot

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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge… observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts reflection combines them experimentation verifies the result of that combination. – Denis Diderot

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Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey. – Denis Diderot

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Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age. – Hesiod

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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew. – Robert Browning

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From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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