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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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I would give something to know for whose sake precisely those deeds were really done which report says were done for the fatherland.
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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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Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse.
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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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He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.
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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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As nations improve, so do their gods.
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Non cogitant, ergo non sunt.
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One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them.
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Pain warns us not to exert our limbs to the point of breaking them. How much knowledge would we not need to recognize this by the exercise of mere reason.
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As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.
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There are two ways of extending life: firstly by moving the two points born and died farther away from one another. The other method is to go more slowly and leave the two points wherever God wills they should be, and this method is for the philosophers.
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