Quotes by Friedrich Melchior Grimm

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• In general, it is not very difficult for little minds to attain splendid situations. It is much more difficult for great minds to attain the place to which their merit fully entitles them.

  ― Friedrich Melchior Grimm
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• Montesquieu had the style of a genius; Buffon, the genius of style.

  ― Friedrich Melchior Grimm
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• The glory of a nation and an age is always the work of a few great persons, and it disappears with them.

  ― Friedrich Melchior Grimm
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• The glory of a people and of an age is always the work of a small number of great men, and disappears with them.

  ― Friedrich Melchior Grimm
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• The greatest men have not always the best heads; many indiscretions may be pardoned to a brilliant and ardent imagination. The prudence and discretion of a cold heart are not worth half so much as the follies of an ardent mind.

  ― Friedrich Melchior Grimm
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Subjects in these quotes:

• indiscretions
• imagination
• discretion
• greatest
• pardoned
• prudence

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