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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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French Moralist
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Never trust a man who lays his hand on his heart when he assures you of anything.
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Never undertake anything unless you have the heart to ask Heaven's blessing on your undertaking.
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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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The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself.
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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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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
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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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Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.
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As nations improve, so do their gods.
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If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.
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A good part of the fame of most celebrated men is due to the shortsightedness of their admirers
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It is certainly not a matter of indifference whether I learn something without effort or finally arrive at it myself through my system of thought. In the latter case everything has roots, in the former it is merely superficial.
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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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Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
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Ideas too are a life and a world.
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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.
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It is astonishing how much the word infinitely is misused: everything is infinitely more beautiful, infinitely better, etc. The concept must have something pleasing about it, or its misuse could not have become so general.
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If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.
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A good method of discovery is to imagine certain members of a system removed and then see how what is left would behave: for example, where would we be if iron were absent from the world: this is an old example.
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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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