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Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.
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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To see every day how people get the name 'genius' just as the wood-lice in the cellar the name 'millipede'-not because they have that many feet, but because most people don't want to count to 14-this has had the result that I don't believe anyone any more without checking.
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If it were true what in the end would be gained? Nothing but another truth. Is this such a mighty advantage? We have enough old truths still to digest, and even these we would be quite unable to endure if we did not sometimes flavor them with lies.
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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's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
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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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Doubt everything at least once, even the sentence Two times two is four.
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