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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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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
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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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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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Never undertake anything unless you have the heart to ask Heaven's blessing on your undertaking.
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Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.
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A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
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What concerns me alone I only think, what concerns my friends I tell them, what can be of interest to only a limited public I write, and what the world ought to know is printed.
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Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse.
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There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler than you and yet not so very different that you cannot understand them.
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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 are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.
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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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It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.
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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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One of our forefathers must have read a forbidden book.
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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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One should never trust a person who, while assuring you of something, puts his hands on his heart.
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There are people who can believe anything they wish. What lucky creatures!
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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 Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.
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