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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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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.
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I made the journey to knowledge like dogs who go for walks with their masters, a hundred times forward and backward over the same territory and when I arrived I was tired.
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Ambition and suspicion always go together.
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How happily some people would live if they troubled themselves as little about other people's business as about their own.
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Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.
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It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can't do anything from early habit.
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What concerns me alone I only think, what concerns my friends I tell them, what can be of interest to only a limited public I write, and what the world ought to know is printed.
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The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use.
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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.
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The girl who reveals herself heart and soul to her friend reveals the secrets of the entire sex for every girl is the guardian of the feminine mysteries.
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Whenever he composes a critical review, I have been told, he gets an enormous erection.
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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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A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
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Universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones.
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Diogenes, filthily attired, paced across the splendid carpets in Plato's dwelling. Thus, said he, do I trample on the pride of Plato. Yes, Plato replied, but only with another kind of pride.
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If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.
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It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.
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