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Whenever he composes a critical review, I have been told, he gets an enormous erection.
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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To live when you do not want to is dreadful, but it would be even more terrible to be immortal when you did not want to be. As things are, however, the whole ghastly burden is suspended from me by a thread which I can cut in two with a penny-knife.
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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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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
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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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Those who have racked their brains to discover new proofs have perhaps been induced to do so by a compulsion they could not quite explain to themselves. Instead of giving us their new proofs they should have explained to us the motivation that constrained them to search for them.
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The ordinary man is ruined by the flesh lusting against the spirit the scholar by the spirit lusting too much against the flesh.
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He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.
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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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I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
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Never undertake anything unless you have the heart to ask Heaven's blessing on your undertaking.
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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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A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.
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There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in--the skeleton of his character and to try to alter this is like training a sheep for draught purposes.
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One of our forefathers must have read a forbidden book.
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It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.
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