Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes on Behavior
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One cannot demand of a scholar that he show himself a scholar everywhere in society, but the whole tenor of his behavior must none the less betray the thinker, he must always be instructive, his way of judging a thing must even in the smallest matters be such that people can see what it will amount to when, quietly and self-collected, he puts this power to scholarly use.
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If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.
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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.
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Even the gentlest, most modest and best of girls are always better, gentler and more modest if their mirrors have told them they are looking more beautiful than ever.
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The late M. who had a Catholic maid, once told me entirely bona fide: This person is a Catholic, it is true, but she is an honest, good soul. Recently she committed a perjury on my behalf.
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We live in a world in which one fool makes many fools but one wise man only a few wise men.