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Ambition and suspicion always go together.
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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I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
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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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Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul.
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I am grateful that I am not as judgmental as all those censorious, self-righteous people around me. In each of us there is a little of all of us.
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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 highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself.
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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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