Georg C. Lichtenberg

I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too. ”

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals. ”

Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older. ”

What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones? ”

To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow. ”

It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists. ”

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

Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven. ”

Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will. ”

Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle. ”