G. C. Lichtenberg quotes
"Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it"
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"He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usua"
"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"
"Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all."
"Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together."
"The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle."