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Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.
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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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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Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
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The course of the seasons is a piece of clockwork, with a cuckoo to call when it is spring.
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What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.
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The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.
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To make a vow is a greater sin than to break one.
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Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense.
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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 worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.
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Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is.
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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.
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Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
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What makes our poetry so contemptible nowadays is its paucity of ideas. If you want to be read, invent. Who the Devil wouldn't like to read something new?
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Non cogitant, ergo non sunt.
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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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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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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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The rules of grammar are mere human statutes, which is why when he speaks out of the possessed the Devil himself speaks bad Latin.
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We judge nothing so hastily as character, and yet there is nothing over which we should be more cautious.... I have always found that the so-called bad people improve on closer acquaintance, while the good fall off.
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Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.
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