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It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can't do anything from early habit.
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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He who says he hates all kinds of flattery, and says so in earnest, has undoubtedly not as yet become acquainted with all kinds of it, whether in substance or in form.
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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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All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give me no pleasure. They are merely auxiliaries. At close range it is all not true.
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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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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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The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
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To make astute people believe one is what one is not is, in most cases, harder than actually to become what one wishes to appear.
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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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