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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
Mathematician
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Physicist
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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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One of the greatest and also the commonest of faults is for men to believe that, because they never hear their shortcomings spoken of, or read about them in cold print, others can have no knowledge of them.
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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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Pain warns us not to exert our limbs to the point of breaking them. How much knowledge would we not need to recognize this by the exercise of mere reason.
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I forget most of what I read, just as I do most of what I have eaten, but I know that both contribute no less to the conservation of my mind and my body on that account.
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If an angel were to tell us about his philosophy, I believe many of his statements might well sound like '2 x 2= 13'.
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Never undertake anything unless you have the heart to ask Heaven's blessing on your undertaking.
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In each of us there is a little of all of us.
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When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so.
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An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return
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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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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
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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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I would give something to know for whose sake precisely those deeds were really done which report says were done for the fatherland.
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Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
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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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A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.
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Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
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A man has virtues enough if he deserves pardon for his faults on account of them.
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Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
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