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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 man has virtues enough if he deserves pardon for his faults on account of them.
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Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.
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I am grateful that I am not as judgmental as all those censorious, self-righteous people around me. In each of us there is a little of all of us.
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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 the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?
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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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If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.
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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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Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
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Every condition of the soul has its own sign and expression...So you will see how hard it is to seem original without being so.
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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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The greatest things in the world are brought about by other things which we count as nothing: little causes we overlook but which at length accumulate.
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The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.
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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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Is it not strange that mankind should so willingly battle for religion and so unwillingly live according to its precepts?
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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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He who says he hates all kinds of flattery, and says so in earnest, has undoubtedly not as yet become acquainted with all kinds of it, whether in substance or in form.
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Those who never have time do least
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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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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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