Stellar Moments of Humankind | Stefan Zweig 

“So terribly does the great moment avenge itself, descending rarely into the lives of mortals, on the one unjustly called upon who does not know how to utilize it. All the bourgeois virtues, well-armed against the claims of the silently rolling day—prudence, obedience, diligence, and circumspection—all melt impotently in the glow of the great moment of destiny, which always demands only genius and shapes it into a lasting portrait. Contemptuously, it repels the timid; only the bold, another god of the earth, it lifts with fiery arms into the heaven of heroes.”