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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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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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As soon as you know a man to be blind, you imagine that you can see it from his back.
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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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They do not think, therefore they are not.
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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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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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Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.
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I am confident of my ability to demonstrate that one can sometimes believe in something and yet not believe in it. Nothing is less fathomable than the systems that motivate our actions.
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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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As nations improve, so do their gods.
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Everyone is a genius at least once a year.
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There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist.
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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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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
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