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In cities people think that it is good manners not even to know who lives in the same building.
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Respect yourself, if you want others to respect you.
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For a person of understanding, interacting with children is endlessly interesting. Here one sees the book of nature thrown open, stripped of artificiality.
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One should never forget, that society would rather be amused than instructed.
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No bonds last longer than those made in early youth. At that age one is less mistrustful and less troubled by trifles.
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Learn to bear criticism. Do not be childishly biased by your own opinions.
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One of the most important virtues in social life, a virtue that is becoming less common by the day, is discretion.
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Learn to take on the tone of whatever company you find yourself in.
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Without inspiration, which fills the soul with a healthy warmth, nothing great can ever be brought to pass.
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Do not be too much a slave of others' opinions of you! Be self-sufficient! Why, in the end, does the opinion of the whole world trouble you, if you do what you should?
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Whoever lives continually in a state of dissipation and distraction, becomes a stranger in his own heart.
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Act well and properly, less to please others, more to keep your own self-respect.
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When you are alone, never let your clothing fall into disarray. Do not allow yourself to be dirty, have poor posture, or have rude manners when no one is observing you.
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People far too easily neglect or abuse us, as soon as we become intimate with them. To live pleasantly, one must almost always remain a stranger in the crowd.
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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view — until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.
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Born:
October 16, 1752
Died:
May 6, 1796
(aged 43)
Bio:
Freiherr Adolph Franz Friedrich Ludwig Knigge was a German writer, Freemason, and a leading member of the Order of the Illuminati.
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