Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself. -- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still. -- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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. -- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself. -- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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