There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler than you and yet not so very different that you cannot understand them.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve
people honesty practice mankind
With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.
belief people
It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people's attention and give them a livelier idea of God than do the often ill-applied examples of his wrath.
example people
We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at a large assembly of people a history of the human soul written in a kind of Chinese ideograms.
people history
People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to earn them a livelihood; one might say they lie down like bears in winter and seek sustenance from their paws.
rights people
The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.
imagination people
If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.
people
There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.
talent people
rules people
People nowadays have such high hopes of America and the political conditions obtaining there that one might say the desires, at least the secret desires, of all enlightened Europeans are deflected to the west, like our magnetic needles.
There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.
people truth system
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