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The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.
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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I ceased in the year 1764 to believe that one can convince one’s opponents with arguments printed in books. It is not to do that, therefore, that I have taken up my pen, but merely so as to annoy them, and to bestow strength and courage on those on our own side, and to make it known to the others that they have not convinced us.
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The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.
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A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.
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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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Ideas too are a life and a world.
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Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
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He who understands the wise is wise already.
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I look upon book reviews as an infantile disease which new-born books are subject to.
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Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.
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Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me.
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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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Never trust a man who lays his hand on his heart when he assures you of anything.
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Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse.
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The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.
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Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.
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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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He who says he hates all kinds of flattery, and says so in earnest, has undoubtedly not as yet become acquainted with all kinds of it, whether in substance or in form.
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Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.
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Everyone is a genius at least once a year.
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