"If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve"

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Source : "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook C 54, 1799.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#Honesty Quotes #Practice Quotes #People Quotes

“Hell is oneself, hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone.”
“A question I get asked a lot is 'What is it like to play the straight guy all the time?' And I'm totally okay with it.”
“Of course the Devil is laughing at folks for believing it [Big Bang, etc.]. But hey, it works, it sends 'em to Hell, so he'll use it.”
“I shall risk nothing on an attempt to prove the transcendence of p. If others undertake this enterprise, no one will be happier than I in their success. But believe me, it will not fail to cost them some effort.”
“Violence is the sign of temporary weakness.”
“Have you finished your column for tomorrow's headline?" It was Vee. She came up beside me, jotting notes on the notepad she carried everywhere. "I'm thinking of writing mine on the injustice of seating charts. I got paired with a girl who said she just finished lice treatment this morning.”
“Some minds are like soup in a poor restaurantâ€”better left unstirred.”
“I think what my father is saying is I want a fair election. I want a fair election.”

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