"Les beaux esprits lernen einander durch dergleichen rencontre erkennen."
— Wit

January 1, 1970

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Andreas Gryphius, Horribilicribfax, Act IV, scene 7. Voltaire, letter to Thieriot, June 30, 1760, used the expression. See Büchmann, Geflügelte Worte. Ed. 10, p. 123.