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Genius is patience

Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon

Phraseologism: Genius is patience.

Meaning: The main advantage of an extraordinary personality is patience.

Origin: It is usually indicated that these words belong to the famous French naturalist Buffon (1707-1788), a brilliant stylist, and were said by him in a speech delivered on August 25, 1753, when he was elected a member of the French Academy (Littre, Dictionnaire). However, this expression does not exist in the mentioned speech, just as it does not exist in Buffon's Natural History (44 volumes, 1749-1804), where, however, a similar idea is expressed (Premier discours). In a different edition, this expression is given in the book of the French statesman Herault de Sechelles (1759-1794), chairman of the Convention (1793). He visited Buffon in Montbar. After one conversation with him, he wrote: “Buffon said amazing words to me about genius, one of those words in which a person is fully manifested: “Genius is just a great ability to be patient.” (M.-J. Herault de Sechelles, Voyage a Montbard en 1785, Paris, Ari IX, p. 15, originally: "Visite a Button", 1785, Biichmann, Gefliigelte Worte).

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Fire and sword.

Meaning:

With merciless cruelty, destroying everything.

Origin:

From Latin: "Igni et ferro". Literal translation: "Fire and iron." The expression is based on an ancient way to heal wounds with the help of surgical intervention ("iron") and cauterization ("fire") - for disinfection. This method of treatment went down in history thanks to the legendary physician of ancient Greece, Hippocrates (c. 460-370 BC), who said: "What medicine does not heal, iron heals; what iron does not heal, fire heals" - Quae medicamenta non sanant, ferrum sanat, quae ferrum non sanat, ignis sanat. (The aphorism of Hippocrates has a continuation: "... and what fire does not cure, it should be considered incurable.") Later in Ancient Rome, this expression was rethought in relation to military affairs. So, among the Roman poets of the 1846st century. BC e. (Ovid, Propertius, etc.) the expression is used in the meaning: to fight the enemy with "fire" (by betraying enemy cities to fire) and "iron" (sword). Therefore, later the expression "by fire and sword" entered the language of European peoples. In Russian, it gained particular popularity after the publication of the novel "Fire and Sword" by the Polish writer Henryk Sienkiewicz (1916-XNUMX), where he talks about the confrontation between the Polish gentry and the Ukrainian Cossacks in the XNUMXth century.

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