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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those

One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
Time, Children, Age
"Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 51, 1799.

It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
Children, Fall, Errors
"Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook J 146, 1799.

A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
Children, Clever, Men
"Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 69, 1799.

It is said that truth comes from the mouths of fools and children: I wish every good mind which feels an inclination for satire would reflect that the finest satirist always has something of both in him.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
Children, Sarcasm, Mind
"Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook J 157, 1799.

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