What makes our poetry so contemptible nowadays is its pauci… - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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What makes our poetry so contemptible nowadays is its paucity of ideas. If you want to be read, invent. Who the Devil wouldn't like to read something new?

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1 July 1742 – 24 February 1799) was a German scientist, satirist, and philosopher.

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¿No es extraño que quienes dominan al género humano ocupen un rango tan superior al de quienes lo educan?

Esto revela hasta qué punto el hombre es un animal esclavo.

To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.

El único defecto de los escritores realmente buenos es que casi siempre ocasionan que haya muchos malos o regulares.

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