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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.
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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Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being.
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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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Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.
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If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.
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