Seneca the Younger Quotes About Genius

• There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.

  Seneca the Younger

  Insanity, Genius, Spices

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 396-97, De Animi Tranquillitate, XV. 10, 1922.

• Life's like a play; it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

  Seneca the Younger

  Destiny, Play, Excellence

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• The deep waters of time will flow over us: only a few men of genius will lift a head above the surface, and though doomed eventually to pass into the same silence, will fight against oblivion and for a long time hold their own.

  Seneca the Younger

  Memories, Fighting, Men

• Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.

  Seneca the Younger

  Science, Giving, Firsts

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• There is no genius free from some tincture of madness

  Seneca the Younger

  Genius, Madness, Genius And Madness

• There is no genius without a mixture of madness.

  Seneca the Younger

  Genius, Mixtures, Madness

• Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.

  Seneca the Younger

  Genius, Accepted

• The rust of the mind is the destruction of genius.

  Seneca the Younger

  Mind, Genius, Rust

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