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Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.
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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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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A good method of discovery is to imagine certain members of a system removed and then see how what is left would behave: for example, where would we be if iron were absent from the world: this is an old example.
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Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse. To discover little faults has been always the particularity of such brains that are a little or not at all above the average. The superior ones keep quiet or say something against the whole and the great minds transform without blaming.
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Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.
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Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul.
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Is it not strange that mankind should so willingly battle for religion and so unwillingly live according to its precepts?
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If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.
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Marriage, in contrast to the flu, starts with a fever and ends with the chills.
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The girl who reveals herself heart and soul to her friend reveals the secrets of the entire sex for every girl is the guardian of the feminine mysteries.
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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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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.
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It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can't do anything from early habit.
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The rules of grammar are mere human statutes, which is why when he speaks out of the possessed the Devil himself speaks bad Latin.
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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.
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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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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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He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.
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There can hardly be a stranger commodity in the world than books. Printed by people who don't understand them sold by people who don't understand them bound, criticized and read by people who don't understand them and now even written by people who don't understand them.
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Universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones.
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The world is a body common to all men, changes to it bring about a change in the souls of all men who are turned towards that part of it at that moment.
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