"La génie n'est utre chose qu'une grande aptitude à la patience."

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Genius is nothing else than a great aptitude for patience. — Narrated by Herault de Séchelles (La visite à Buffon, ou Voyage à Montbard, 1790), when speaking of a talk with Buffon in 1785. (Not in Buffon's works.) Reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).