Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.

We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy — at least until we have become as clever as they are.

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.

Where the frontier of science once was is now the centre.

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