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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Georg C. Lichtenberg
Age: 56 †
Born: 1742
Born: July 1
Died: 1799
Died: February 24
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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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Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
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If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.
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What you have been obliged to discover by yourself leaves a path in your mind which you can use again when the need arises.
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Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.
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Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me.
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It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.
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I made the journey to knowledge like dogs who go for walks with their masters, a hundred times forward and backward over the same territory and when I arrived I was tired.
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A man has virtues enough if he deserves pardon for his faults on account of them.
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A good part of the fame of most celebrated men is due to the shortsightedness of their admirers
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A good method of discovery is to imagine certain members of a system removed and then see how what is left would behave: for example, where would we be if iron were absent from the world: this is an old example.
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