More from Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

  1. Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse. To discover little faults has been always the particularity of suc…
  2. He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.
  3. It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.
  4. To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means t…
  5. To be content with life - or to live merrily, rather - all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial gl…
  6. If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.
  7. The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.
  8. It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius …

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