Famous quotes

Collection of the best phrases and famous quotes from the most prominent authors.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Marriage, unlike a fever, begins with warmth and ends with cold.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Don't let yourself be influenced, don't give any opinion as your own before seeing if it suits you, better form your own opinion.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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English translation: The sculpted saints have exerted much greater influence in the world than the living ones.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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No fame and rest do not go together.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Everyone admits that the obscene stories one writes oneself are far from having as dangerous an effect as those written by others.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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It is impossible to cross a crowd with the flame of truth without burning someone's beard.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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At least once a year, everyone is a genius.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Nothing reveals men's character better than a joke taken in the wrong way.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Trying to change a man's character is like trying to teach a sheep to pull a cart.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Certain men of evil heart believe they reconcile with heaven when they give alms.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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The glory of the most famous is always associated with some of the myopia of the admirers.