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Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Georg C. Lichtenberg
Age: 56 †
Born: 1742
Born: July 1
Died: 1799
Died: February 24
Astronomer
French Moralist
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No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system.
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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.
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One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them.
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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.
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Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure.
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Universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones.
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The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.
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Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse.
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A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.
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One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
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The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.
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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.
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An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return
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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.
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There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in--the skeleton of his character and to try to alter this is like training a sheep for draught purposes.
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