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The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.
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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To see every day how people get the name 'genius' just as the wood-lice in the cellar the name 'millipede'-not because they have that many feet, but because most people don't want to count to 14-this has had the result that I don't believe anyone any more without checking.
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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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Man is perhaps half mind and half matter in the same way as the polyp is half plant and half animal. The strangest creatures are always found on the border lines of species.
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The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.
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Every condition of the soul has its own sign and expression...So you will see how hard it is to seem original without being so.
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The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
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When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?
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A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
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In each of us there is a little of all of us.
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Many a man who is willing to be shot for his belief in a miracle would have doubted, had he been present at the miracle itself.
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A good part of the fame of most celebrated men is due to the shortsightedness of their admirers
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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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A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.
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Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.
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It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older.
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Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.
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One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
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It is a great shame most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners / desecrated them.
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Everyone is a genius at least once a year.
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