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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
Mathematician
Philosopher
Physicist
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University Teacher
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København
Least
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People
Productivity
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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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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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No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system.
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Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense.
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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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They do not think, therefore they are not.
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There is something in our minds like sunshine and the weather, which is not under our control. When I write, the best things come to me from I know not where.
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Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
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Never undertake anything unless you have the heart to ask Heaven's blessing on your undertaking.
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Doubt everything at least once, even the sentence Two times two is four.
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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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