"Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse. To discover little faults has been always the particularity of such brains that are a little or not at all above the average. The superior ones keep quiet or say something against the whole and the great minds transform without blaming."
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Variant translation: Before we blame we should first see whether we cannot excuse.
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
1742 β 1799
deutscher Naturwissenschaftler, Schriftsteller und Philosoph
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