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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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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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Propositions on which all men are in agreement are true: if they are not true we have no truth at all.
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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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I look upon book reviews as an infantile disease which new-born books are subject to.
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Be attentive, feel nothing in vain, measure and compare: this is the whole law of philosophy.
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One of our forefathers must have read a forbidden book.
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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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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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Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.
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