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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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It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.
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The great trick of regarding small departures from the truth as the truth itself - on which is founded the entire integral calculus - is also the basis of our witty speculations, where the whole thing would often collapse if we considered the departures with philosophical rigour.
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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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Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul.
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I forget the greater part of what I read, but all the same it nourishes my mind.
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There is something in our minds like sunshine and the weather, which is not under our control. When I write, the best things come to me from I know not where.
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Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
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Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
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As nations improve, so do their gods.
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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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I am grateful that I am not as judgmental as all those censorious, self-righteous people around me. In each of us there is a little of all of us.
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I look upon book reviews as an infantile disease which new-born books are subject to.
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A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.
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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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The excuses we make to ourselves when we want to do something are excellent material for soliloquies, for they are rarely made except when we are alone, and are very often made aloud.
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Diogenes, filthily attired, paced across the splendid carpets in Plato's dwelling. Thus, said he, do I trample on the pride of Plato. Yes, Plato replied, but only with another kind of pride.
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We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.
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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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The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.
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