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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Quote of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg: There is something in every person's...


Biography - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg:

German physicist, satirist and Anglophile.
Born: 1742 - Died: 1799
Period:
18th century
Place of birth: Germany
Germany

There is something in every person's character that cannot be broken — the bony structure of his character.


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There is something in every person's character that cannot be broken — the bony structure of his character. Wanting to change it is the same as teaching a sheep to retrieve.



Internet Archive - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799) : essai sur sa vie et ses œuvres littéraires (fr) 




Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
Dans le caractère de tout homme, il y a quelque chose qui ne se laisse pas briser : l'ossature du caractère.

German
In jedes Menschen Character sitzt etwas, das sich nicht brechen lässt — das Knochengebäude des Characters.




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Quotes

Quotes for: character


A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.





One thing is needful. - To "give style" to one's character.





Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.





Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.





Character is the virtue of hard times.





A man of wit is lost, if to his wit he does not join energy of character. If you have the lantern of Diogenes, you must also have his cudgel.











Quotes

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg also said...


He who truly knows himself can soon come to know everyone else. Everything is reflection.





What good is all sunrise, if we do not stand up?





The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.





Doubt everything at least once, even the sentence “Two times two is four.”





Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him.





In each of us there is a little of all of us.












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