"C'est le privilège du vrai génie, et surtout du génie qui ouvre une carrière, de faire impunément de grandes fautes."
— Voltaire

January 1, 1970

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It is the privilege of true genius, and certainly of the genius that opens a new road, to make without punishment great mistakes. — Siècle de Louis XIV", ch. 32 (1751), qtd. in Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation (1818), "Criticism of the Kantian philosophy