5 Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes on Character

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg quotes on character

21. Once the good man was dead, one wore his hat and another his sword as he had worn them, a third had himself barbered as he had, a fourth walked as he did, but the honest man that he was - nobody any longer wanted to be that.

66. Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.

104. If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.

118. He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.

123. Do not have too artificial an idea of man but judge him naturally. Don't consider him too good or too bad. It is a golden rule that one should not judge people according to their opinions, but according to what these opinions make of them.