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.

Quote by Georg C Lichtenberg

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

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

What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's...

What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's...

It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own...

It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own...

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if...

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if...

To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation...

To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation...

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

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

Eveyone is a genius at least once a year. A real genius has his original...

Eveyone is a genius at least once a year. A real genius has his original...

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...

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made...

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made...

There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.

There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.

With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some...

With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some...

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

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

There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made...

There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made...

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

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

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to...

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to...

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

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

Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe...

Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe...

There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see...

There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see...

Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to...

Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to...

Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.

Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.