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To make yourself something less than you can be - that too is a form of suicide


Benjamin Lichtenberg

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GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG To make a vow is a greater sin than to break one.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG Some people read because they are too lazy to think.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhapp...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG Când ai de facut o lucrare, nu te gândi mereu la întregimea ei; executa fragmentul pe care-l ai �...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.
WALTER BENJAMIN Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have th...
BENJAMIN HARRISON Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.
BENJAMIN JOWETT If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, th...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memori...
WALTER BENJAMIN All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.
WALTER BENJAMIN All disgust is originally disgust at touching.
WALTER BENJAMIN Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life o...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no m...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN When the well is dry, they know the worth of water.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reas...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He that has not got a wife is not yet a complete man.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the laz...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN When you're finished changing, you're finished.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN An egg today is better than a hen to-morrow.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN When in doubt, don't.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Lost time is never found again.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in...
BENJAMIN HARRISON A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Distrust and caution are the parents of security.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I have a ton of videos on MySpace and YouTube.
OWEN BENJAMIN I was 6, and I was in the opera 'Carmen.' My dad sang opera and got me into the children'...
OWEN BENJAMIN To be fair, I don't get mad when people laugh at me when I fall down.
OWEN BENJAMIN Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Hunger is the best pickle.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The bud of victory is always in the truth.
BENJAMIN HARRISON