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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.
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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No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system.
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I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies. The world needs such men more than Heaven does.
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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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In every man there is something of all men.
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Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul.
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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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I ceased in the year 1764 to believe that one can convince one’s opponents with arguments printed in books. It is not to do that, therefore, that I have taken up my pen, but merely so as to annoy them, and to bestow strength and courage on those on our own side, and to make it known to the others that they have not convinced us.
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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.
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Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.
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How happily some people would live if they troubled themselves as little about other people's business as about their own.
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If an angel were to tell us about his philosophy, I believe many of his statements might well sound like '2 x 2= 13'.
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Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.
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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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The course of the seasons is a piece of clockwork, with a cuckoo to call when it is spring.
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