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

Quote by Georg C Lichtenberg

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The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.

Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough...

Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough...

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are...

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are...

It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part...

It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part...

We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until...

We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until...

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance...

To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance...

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree...

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree...

With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed...

With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed...

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

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

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.

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

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

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which...

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which...

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly...

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly...

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

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

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent,...

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent,...

Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at...

Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at...

When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much...

When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much...

It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do...

It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do...

The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.