Preserving Health By Too Severe A Rule

One Of The Greatest And Also The Commonest Of Faults Is For Men To Believe That, Because They Never Hear Their Shortcomings Spoken Of, Or Read About Them In Cold Print, Others Can Have No Knowledge Of Them. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, The Reflections Of Lichtenberg We Are Often More Agreeable Through Our Faults Than Our Good Qualities.

A Man May Be Sharper Than Another, But Not Than All Others.

Passion Often Makes A Fool Of The Cleverest Man And Often Makes The Most Foolish Men Clever

Sometimes We Meet A Fool With Wit, Never One With Discretion.

What Men Have Called Friendship Is Only A Social Arrangement, A Mutual Adjustment Of Interests, An Interchange Of Services Given And Received; It Is, In Sum, Simply A Business From Which Those Involved Propose To Derive A Steady Profit For Their Own Self-love.