Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quote

Nothing ages us faster than constantly thinking about getting old.

Grant your spirit the habit of doubt, and your heart the habit of tolerance.

Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.

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

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.

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

No fame and rest do not go together.

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

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

At least once a year, everyone is a genius.

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

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