Before one blames, one should always find out whether one c… - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse. To discover little faults has been always the particularity of such brains that are a little or not at all above the average. The superior ones keep quiet or say something against the whole and the great minds transform without blaming.

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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Когато една книга ти се харесва все повече с течение на годините, това е верен признак, че тя е добра.

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.

There are two ways of extending life: firstly by moving the two points "born" and "died" farther away from one another... The other method is to go more slowly and leave the two points wherever God wills they should be, and this method is for the philosophers.

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