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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
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There are two ways of extending life: firstly by moving the two points born and died farther away from one another. The other method is to go more slowly and leave the two points wherever God wills they should be, and this method is for the philosophers.
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Everyone should study at least enough philosophy and belles-lettres to make his sexual experience more delectable.
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It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.
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It is certainly not a matter of indifference whether I learn something without effort or finally arrive at it myself through my system of thought. In the latter case everything has roots, in the former it is merely superficial.
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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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God created man in His own image, says the Bible philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
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The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect.
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The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.
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Propositions on which all men are in agreement are true: if they are not true we have no truth at all.
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Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.
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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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Be attentive, feel nothing in vain, measure and compare: this is the whole law of philosophy.
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A book which, above all others in the world, should be forbidden, is a catalogue of forbidden books.
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To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.
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He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.
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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
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The feeling of health can only be gained by sickness.
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Honor is infinitely more valuable than positions of honor.
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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.
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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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