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Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, 'God and I both knew what it meant once now God alone knows.'

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Cesare Lombroso
Age: 73 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 6
Died: 1909
Died: October 19
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Ezechia Marco Lombroso
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God and I both knew what it meant once now God alone knows.
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The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities
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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.
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Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.
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The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand
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Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses
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