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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
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Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.
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He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.
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A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.
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Never undertake anything unless you have the heart to ask Heaven's blessing on your undertaking.
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What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears...as easily as we open and shut our eyes.
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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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The ordinary man is ruined by the flesh lusting against the spirit the scholar by the spirit lusting too much against the flesh.
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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
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He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.
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He who knows himself properly can very soon learn to know all other men. It is all reflection.
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I would give something to know for whose sake precisely those deeds were really done which report says were done for the fatherland.
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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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Those who never have time do least
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