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The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Georg C. Lichtenberg
Age: 56 †
Born: 1742
Born: July 1
Died: 1799
Died: February 24
Astronomer
French Moralist
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Propositions on which all men are in agreement are true: if they are not true we have no truth at all.
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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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A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
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He who knows himself properly can very soon learn to know all other men. It is all reflection.
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To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.
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It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.
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The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.
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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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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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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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What we are able to judge with feeling is very little the rest is all prejudice and complaisance.
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The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.
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Ambition and suspicion always go together.
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Non cogitant, ergo non sunt.
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The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.
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