• A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.

    Georg C. Lichtenberg: A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.
    "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 69, 1799.