The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able t…

Georg C. Lichtenberg
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The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism. ✨ Aphorisms. Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 44, 1799.
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The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism. ✨ Aphorisms. Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 44, 1799.

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