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Famous Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes
“Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.”
“Never trust a man who lays his hand on his heart when he assures you of anything.”
“Is it so unjust that a man should leave the world by the same gate through which he entered it?”
“He who knows himself properly can very soon learn to know all other men. It is all reflection.”
“A man has virtues enough if he deserves pardon for his faults on account of them.”
“A good part of the fame of most celebrated men is due to the shortsightedness of their admirers”
“Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay, than they think.”
“A man of spirit must not think of the word difficulty as so much as existing. Away with it!”
“One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.”
“Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.”
“With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.”
“The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it.”
“With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.”