Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.

Quote by Georg C Lichtenberg

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The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is...

To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is...

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...

Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.

Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

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...

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...

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many...

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many...

With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.

With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.

The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on...

The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on...

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

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

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...

Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants...

Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants...

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

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

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.

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...

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...

To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or...

To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or...

He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly...

He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly...

I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his...

I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his...