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If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.
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
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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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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 it were true what in the end would be gained? Nothing but another truth. Is this such a mighty advantage? We have enough old truths still to digest, and even these we would be quite unable to endure if we did not sometimes flavor them with lies.
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Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.
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After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?
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He who understands the wise is wise already.
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To make a vow is a greater sin than to break one.
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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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A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.
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A good means to discovery is to take away certain parts of a system to find out how the rest behaves.
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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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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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What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?
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A man has virtues enough if he deserves pardon for his faults on account of them.
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