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Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense.

Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
Humor, Character, Men

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
Character, Men, Judging

We now possess four principles of morality: 1) a philosophical: do good for its own sake, out of respect for the law; 2) a religious: do good because it is God's will, out of love of God; 3) a human: do good because it will promote your happiness, out of self-love; 4) a political: do good because it will promote the welfare of the society of which you are a part, out of love of society having regard to yourself. But is this not all one single principle, only viewed from different sides?

Georg C. Lichtenberg
Religious, Philosophical, Character

We judge nothing so hastily as character, and yet there is nothing over which we should be more cautious.... I have always found that the so-called bad people improve on closer acquaintance, while the good fall off.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
Fall, Character, Judging

To make astute people believe one is what one is not is, in most cases, harder than actually to become what one wishes to appear.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
Believe, Character, People

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
Character, Resent, Personality Flaws
"Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 46, 1799.

If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
Character, Men, Failing
"Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 46, 1799.

There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in--the skeleton of his character; and to try to alter this is like training a sheep for draught purposes.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
Character, Men, Skeletons

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