Article VI – The law is the expression of the general will. All the citizens have the right of contributing personally or through their representatives to its formation. It must be the same for all, either that it protects, or that it punishes. All the citizens, being equal in its eyes, are equally admissible to all public dignities, places and employments, according to their capacity and without distinction other than that of their virtues and of their talents.
Talent is shaped in tranquility; Character in the stream of life.
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
The essential has never required the least talent.
To have talent, you must be convinced that you possess it.
And how great soever a Man's Talents may be, unless they be cultivated, they are but half-talents.
I put all my genius into my life I put only my talent into my works.
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.
