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George-Louis Leclerc de BuffonGeorge-Louis Leclerc de Buffon cytaty
„Geniusz to tylko sprawa cierpliwości.”
Źródło: Henryk Markiewicz, Andrzej Romanowski, Skrzydlate słowa, PIW, Warszawa 1990, s. 984.
George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon: Cytaty po angielsku
Buffon's Natural History (1797) Vol. 10, pp. 340-341 https://books.google.com/books?id=respAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA340, an English translation of Histoire Naturelle (1749-1804).
Histoire Naturelle (1753), trans. J. S. Barr, London: H. D. Symonds, 1797, vol. V, pp. 209 https://books.google.it/books?id=9QpTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA209-210.
“Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.”
As quoted in New Cyclopædia of Illustrations (1870) by Elon Foster, p. 492
“Genius is nothing else than a great aptitude for patience.”
La génie n'est utre chose qu'une grande aptitude à la patience.
Narrated by Herault de Séchelles ( La visite à Buffon, ou Voyage à Montbard http://www.atramenta.net/lire/voyage-a-montbard/3508, 1790), when speaking of a talk with Buffon in 1785. (Not in Buffon's works.) Reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Le style c'est l'homme.
Discourse on taking his seat in the French Academie (Aug. 25, 1753). Le style c'est l'homme même. Œuvres Completes (1778). Histoire Naturelle (1769). Le style est de l'homme. Discours sur Style.