We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.
G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg
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Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.
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Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.
- G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg