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Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
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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A good means to discovery is to take away certain parts of a system to find out how the rest behaves.
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Everyone should study at least enough philosophy and belles-lettres to make his sexual experience more delectable.
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The feeling of health can only be gained by sickness.
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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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He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.
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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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Do not commence your exercises in philosophy in those regions where an error can deliver you over to the executioner.
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It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older.
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There are people who can believe anything they wish. What lucky creatures!
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I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
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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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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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There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
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We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.
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Doubt everything at least once, even the sentence Two times two is four.
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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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