“Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses.”

—  Cesare Lombroso

Die Welt (1909); also in A Treasury of Jewish Quotations (1985) by Joseph L. Baron.

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Italian criminologist 1835–1909

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