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Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.


Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the l...
KUO HIS Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the l...
KUO HIS From his silence a man's consent is inferred.
DECIMUS LABERIUS A great man is one who recognizes his own weaknesses and observes other's strength.
J.J. BOWLERS He knew in the way that she was a part of him, the way her breathing was his breathing, and her drea...
CASSANDRA CLARE The mind becomes much more beautiful,
when man could see his own weaknesses.
TOBA BETA When a man marries his mistress it creates a job opportunity.
JAMES GOLDSMITH Man,His world & His dreams;Place man at the right spot & all his dreams will rightly make sense.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) When a man takes a mistress, he doesn't turn around and divorce his wife.
ARTHUR GOLDEN In short, no association or alliance can be happy or stable without me. People can't long tolerate a...
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Man,His world & His dreams;When a man is placed aright in his world,he is most likely going to dream...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I am his mistress. His work is his wife.
MARION JAVITS A smart man uses his strengths to the best of his abilities, but a true genius creates his weaknesse...
CARLOSLARA When you have deep insights about someone, you are being very matured by trying to help this person ...
SAAIF A;LAM A man can learn all of an opponent's weaknesses on that board,' said Gilt.
'Really?' said Vetin...
TERRY PRATCHETT Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and...
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JAMES PAYN One learns little more about a man from his feats of literary memory than from the feats of his alim...
FRANK MOORE COLBY I call a man rich man if his mind is full of dreams and his soul is full of resolution to realise th...
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DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his ...
FRANK MOORE COLBY One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.
KLAUS KINSKI One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.
KLAUS KINSKI Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?
BIBLE No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver
KAHLIL GIBRAN I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thou...
H.P. LOVECRAFT A wise man admits his weaknesses. I'd admit mine if I had any.
SOURCE UNKNOWN One who makes a resolution and then makes sincere efforts to realize his dreams, nothing stops him f...
RIG VEDA A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams
PROVERB Jesus saw a man use his hand to cup water from a stream and Jesus threw away his cup. Jesus saw a w...
DANIEL DELEANU In forming a bridge between body and mind, dreams may be used as a springboard from which man can le...
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MARCUS AURELIUS A courageous man manages to mobilize all his strength, energy and spirit to achieve his purpose and ...
SUNDAY ADELAJA As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mys...
ALBERT SCHWEITZER Each man dreams his own heaven.
JOHN CONNOLLY Naked a man comes from his mother’s womb, and as he comes, so he departs. He takes nothing from hi...
KING SOLOMON His home was populated by things and creatures from Niall Lynch's dreams, and his mother was just an...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Everything and anything about a culture can be inferred from the shape of its language—and
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The Lord Himself beholds all; His Immanent Presence is pervading everywhere.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB She infested his mind, thoughts of worshipping her in dark ways, her laugh would be his reward, her ...
V. THEIA A woman shaking in fear from demons in her mind, and the old man who loves her more deeply than life...
NICHOLAS SPARKS If a man empties his purse into his head no one can take it away from him. An investment in knowledg...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN A man enrich his community. A man teach and display leadership qualities for his children. A man by ...
CARLOS WALLACE A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his m...
HENRY FIELDING Sondheim is my god; I love the man. I learned a great deal about writing from his work, his lyrics, ...
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ERICH MARIA REMARQUE In my view, everything was indeed about her. His romancing me was about her, his conversation about ...
ERICA JONG They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond fi...
JOSEPH CONRAD A man can define many things beautifully in his life, but his character is one beautiful thing that ...
ANUJ SOMANY A man had given all other bliss, And all his worldly worth for this, To waste his whole heart in one...
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON A man had given all other bliss, And all his worldly worth for this, To waste his whole heart in one...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON If a man could mount to heaven and survey the mighty universe, his admiration of its beauties would ...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO There are dozens of ways one can go about managing his or her career,
JOHN CROSS Naked a man comes from his mother’s womb,
and as he comes, so he departs.
He takes nothin...
KING SOLOMON He's got a good combination of power and finesse. One of his biggest advantages is the ability to ad...
DAVID GONSALVES But what a feeling can come over a man just from seeing the things he believes in and hopes for symb...
RALPH ELLISON It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dr...
LIN YUTANG A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acq...
WOODROW WILSON One of the greatest gift a man can give his mum is his respect for femininity.
OLASOT Any father would worry about his son only in two conditions, one when his son doesn’t earn anythin...
ASIF ATAHI Pyramid of piffle [no, not his views on Liverpool but a report Petronella Wyatt was his mistress]
BORIS JOHNSON No one can destroy a man than his deeds.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end faste...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sens...
GEORGE SANTAYANA Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude is, in one sense, o...
GEORGE SANTAYANA I say that no man can be greater than the man who bravely and heroically sacrifices his life for the...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL There is nothing unpremeditated, nothing neglected by God. His unsleeping eye beholds all things.
SAINT BASIL If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowled...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Men and women are made for each other, but their mutual dependence differs in degrees; man is depend...
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU In the life of a man, his time is but a moment, his being an incessant flux, his sense a dim rushlig...
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BRUCE PEARL Eric Ashcroft, a gentle, kind, popular man with a wicked sense of humour, was always modest about hi...
MICHAEL ASHCROFT A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint will convince his antagonist much sooner than on...
JOSEPH ADDISON A true man loves his enemies as much he loves his friends.
SANTOSH KALWAR If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, abs...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, abs...
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JIM BUTCHER As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a...
FRANZ KAFKA As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a ...
FRANZ KAFKA Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it. The only pity was one had to pay s...
OSCAR WILDE A man may keep his heart encased in stone but despite his best efforts a woman can steal it whenever...
E.R. ROCK A man can be valued through his sayings.
IMAM ALI Humanity is not perfect in any fashion; no more in the case of evil than in that of good. The crimin...
PIERRE-AMBROISE CHODERLOS DE LACLOS A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels lik...
RAJ KAPOOR If one lives his dream, it does not imply his all dreams are good.
ANUJ SOMANY I think that a model should not diversify too much from his/her objectives.
ADRIANA KAREMBEU There ain't a man in the world cares about a woman's past until he's thinking of her in his future.
DRU PAGLIASSOTTI He knew one of the women well, and had shared his universe with her. They had seen the same mountain...
PAULO COELHO Commuter -- one who spends his life in riding to and from his wife; And man who shaves and takes a t...
E.B. (ELWYN BROOKS) WHITE A good wife is heaven's last, best gift to man, - his gem of many virtues, his casket of jewels; her...
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G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of o...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the hea...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimina...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the ...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Some theories are good for nothing except to be argued about.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and ex...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can not expect an apostle to peer out.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG To be content with life -- or to live merrily, rather --all that is required is that we bestow on al...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still hone...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Ideas too are a life and a world.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one ...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG If we make a couple of discoveries here and there we need not believe things will go on like this fo...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right co...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of th...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which ...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet c...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesse...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold peop...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage -- he won't encounter many rivals.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of ju...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and co...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wr...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible infl...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Tem...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG One cannot demand of a scholar that he show himself a scholar everywhere in society, but the whole t...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you ca...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the a...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Once the good man was dead, one wore his hat and another his sword as he had worn them, a third had ...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is ...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficulty: elephants a...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a chi...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know eve...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Before we blame we should first see whether we cannot excuse.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by po...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; o...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one h...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be impa...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG If an angel were ever to tell us anything of his philosophy I believe many propositions would sound ...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly th...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too ...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG It is said that truth comes from the mouths of fools and children: I wish every good mind which feel...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG