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I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
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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The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.
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Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.
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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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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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Whenever he composes a critical review, I have been told, he gets an enormous erection.
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The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.
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The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself.
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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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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.
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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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Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.
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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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The greatest things in the world are brought about by other things which we count as nothing: little causes we overlook but which at length accumulate.
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It is a dangerous thing for the perfecting of our minds to gain applause by works that do not call forth the whole of our energies for in that case one generally comes to a standstill.
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The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.
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Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
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