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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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The world is a body common to all men, changes to it bring about a change in the souls of all men who are turned towards that part of it at that moment.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
The excuses we make to ourselves when we want to do something are excellent material for soliloquies, for they are rarely made except when we are alone, and are very often made aloud.
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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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Doubt everything at least once, even the sentence Two times two is four.
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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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We have to believe that everything has a cause, as the spider spins its web in order to catch flies. But it does this before it knows there are such things as flies.
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To make astute people believe one is what one is not is, in most cases, harder than actually to become what one wishes to appear.
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One should never trust a person who, while assuring you of something, puts his hands on his heart.
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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 most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.
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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
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If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.
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There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.
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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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We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.
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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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Never trust a man who lays his hand on his heart when he assures you of anything.
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The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.
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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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The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.
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