Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes on Character
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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.
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Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.
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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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He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.
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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.