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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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A man always writes absolutely well whenever he writes in his own manner, but the wigmaker who tries to write like Gellert ... writes badly.
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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 you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.
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As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.
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In each of us there is a little of all of us.
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The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.
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If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.
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The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.
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With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.
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What you have been obliged to discover by yourself leaves a path in your mind which you can use again when the need arises.
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We judge nothing so hastily as character, and yet there is nothing over which we should be more cautious.... I have always found that the so-called bad people improve on closer acquaintance, while the good fall off.
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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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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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The feeling of health can only be gained by sickness.
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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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What we are able to judge with feeling is very little the rest is all prejudice and complaisance.
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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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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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The greatest things in the world are brought about by other things which we count as nothing: little causes we overlook but which at length accumulate.
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What makes our poetry so contemptible nowadays is its paucity of ideas. If you want to be read, invent. Who the Devil wouldn't like to read something new?
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