“Does talent have any need of passions? Yes, of many passions — repressed.”
Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist
“Say not thou lackest talent. What talent had any of the greatest, but passionate faith in the efficacy of work?”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 169
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