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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.
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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Do not commence your exercises in philosophy in those regions where an error can deliver you over to the executioner.
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There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist.
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Non cogitant, ergo non sunt.
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The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.
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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.
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Delicacy in woman is strength.
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There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler than you and yet not so very different that you cannot understand them.
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Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.
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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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The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.
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Many a man who is willing to be shot for his belief in a miracle would have doubted, had he been present at the miracle itself.
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Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.
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Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.
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Man is perhaps half mind and half matter in the same way as the polyp is half plant and half animal. The strangest creatures are always found on the border lines of species.
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Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.
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An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return
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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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