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Biography - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg:

German physicist, satirist and Anglophile.
Born: 1742 - Died: 1799
Period:
18th century
Place of birth: Germany
Germany

How happy many people would be if they cared about other people's affairs as little as about their own.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg


Note 

Note





Internet Archive - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799) : essai sur sa vie et ses œuvres littéraires (fr) 



Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
Plus d'un vivrait si heureux, pourvu qu'il s'inquiétât aussi peu des affaires d'autrui que des siennes propres !
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

German
Wie glücklich viele Menschen wären, wenn sie sich genauso wenig um die Angelegenheiten anderer kümmern würden wie um die eigenen.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg



See also 

See also...



If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
Charles de Montesquieu - Persian Letters

Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things themselves; we are happy from possessing what we like, not from possessing what others like.
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims

Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.
Francis Bacon



Quotes for: happiness


Quotes

Quotes about happiness:


I have decided to be happy because it's good for my health.
Voltaire - Letter to the Abbé Trublet / 





Happiness is sometimes hidden in the unknown.
Victor Hugo - Les deux trouvailles de Gallus / 





The world of the happy man is a different one from that of the unhappy man.
Ludwig Wittgenstein - Tractatus Logico-philosophicus / 





Happiness is not easily won; it is hard to find it in ourselves and impossible to find it elsewhere.
Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées / 





A happy life, therefore, is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
Seneca - De Vita Beata / 





Nothing is ever finished ; only a little happiness is needed for everything to begin again.
Émile Zola - Germinal / 






All about happiness...




Quotes for: others


Quotes

Quotes about others:


Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Carl Gustav Jung - Memories, Dreams, Reflections / 





The usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good.
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims / 





To be happy, we must consider the happiness of another.
Gaston Bachelard - La Psychanalyse du feu / 





Let the other side be heard as well.
Seneca / 





The best means of learning to know oneself is seeking to understand others.
André Gide / 





Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.
Robert Green Ingersoll / 






All about others...




Quotes

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg also said...


What good is all sunrise, if we do not stand up?
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg / 





We all err, but everybody errs differently.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg - Quotation of uncertain origin / 





He could refract an idea which everyone thought simple into seven others, as the prism does with sunlight, each finer than the other, then gather together a host of others to recreate the white light of the sun, where others merely saw disorder and confusion.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg / 





Is it not peculiar that a literal translation is almost always a terrible one? And yet, anything can be translated well. One sees here what it really means to understand fully a language; it means to understand fully the people who speak it.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg / 





Do not have too artificial an idea of man but judge him naturally. Don't consider him too good or too bad.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg / 





Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg / 







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