Quote #34194
Before we blame, we should first see if we can’t excuse.
Category Archives: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Quote #34195
To read means to borrow to create out of one’s readings is paying off...
Quote #34196
To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our...
Quote #34197
I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies, for the world...
Quote #34198
He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage he won’t...
Quote #34199
Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law all the law can do is...
Quote #34200
Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to...
Quote #34201
He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets...
Quote #34202
It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one’s...
Quote #34203
I cannot say whether things will get better if we change what I can...