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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
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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A good method of discovery is to imagine certain members of a system removed and then see how what is left would behave: for example, where would we be if iron were absent from the world: this is an old example.
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I forget the greater part of what I read, but all the same it nourishes my mind.
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We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.
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As soon as you know a man to be blind, you imagine that you can see it from his back.
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I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
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There are people who can believe anything they wish. What lucky creatures!
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The motives that lead us to do anything might be arranged like the thirty-two winds and might be given names on the same pattern: for instance, bread-bread-fame or fame-fame-bread.
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It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.
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Diogenes, filthily attired, paced across the splendid carpets in Plato's dwelling. Thus, said he, do I trample on the pride of Plato. Yes, Plato replied, but only with another kind of pride.
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Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is.
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The ordinary man is ruined by the flesh lusting against the spirit the scholar by the spirit lusting too much against the flesh.
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Man is perhaps half mind and half matter in the same way as the polyp is half plant and half animal. The strangest creatures are always found on the border lines of species.
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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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