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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
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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How happily some people would live if they troubled themselves as little about other people's business as about their own.
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What concerns me alone I only think, what concerns my friends I tell them, what can be of interest to only a limited public I write, and what the world ought to know is printed.
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There are people who can believe anything they wish. What lucky creatures!
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A good means to discovery is to take away certain parts of a system to find out how the rest behaves.
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Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.
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The fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. When we ask the time, we don't want to know how watches are made.
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We have to believe that everything has a cause, as the spider spins its web in order to catch flies. But it does this before it knows there are such things as flies.
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The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.
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Reason now gazes above the realm of the dark but warm feelings as the Alpine peaks do above the clouds. They behold the sun more clearly and distinctly, but they are cold and unfruitful.
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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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With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.
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A book which, above all others in the world, should be forbidden, is a catalogue of forbidden books.
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One has to do something new in order to see something new.
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Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
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If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.
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