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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.
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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As soon as you know a man to be blind, you imagine that you can see it from his back.
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Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse. To discover little faults has been always the particularity of such brains that are a little or not at all above the average. The superior ones keep quiet or say something against the whole and the great minds transform without blaming.
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To make a vow is a greater sin than to break one.
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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 handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
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What we are able to judge with feeling is very little the rest is all prejudice and complaisance.
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Ideas too are a life and a world.
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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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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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There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in--the skeleton of his character and to try to alter this is like training a sheep for draught purposes.
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What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears...as easily as we open and shut our eyes.
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Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.
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To read means to borrow to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.
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He who knows himself properly can very soon learn to know all other men. It is all reflection.
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It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.
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Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
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