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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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It is certainly not a matter of indifference whether I learn something without effort or finally arrive at it myself through my system of thought. In the latter case everything has roots, in the former it is merely superficial.
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A man has virtues enough if he deserves pardon for his faults on account of them.
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The girl who reveals herself heart and soul to her friend reveals the secrets of the entire sex for every girl is the guardian of the feminine mysteries.
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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.
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Is it not strange that mankind should so willingly battle for religion and so unwillingly live according to its precepts?
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Every condition of the soul has its own sign and expression...So you will see how hard it is to seem original without being so.
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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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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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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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It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can't do anything from early habit.
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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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Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse.
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To make a vow is a greater sin than to break one.
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The motives that lead us to do anything might be arranged like the thirty-two winds and might be given names on the same pattern: for instance, bread-bread-fame or fame-fame-bread.
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