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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 excuses we make to ourselves when we want to do something are excellent material for soliloquies, for they are rarely made except when we are alone, and are very often made aloud.
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Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.
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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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As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.
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What we are able to judge with feeling is very little the rest is all prejudice and complaisance.
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Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense.
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When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?
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What you have been obliged to discover by yourself leaves a path in your mind which you can use again when the need arises.
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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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To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.
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Propositions on which all men are in agreement are true: if they are not true we have no truth at all.
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The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.
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Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse.
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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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Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
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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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A man always writes absolutely well whenever he writes in his own manner, but the wigmaker who tries to write like Gellert ... writes badly.
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Those who have racked their brains to discover new proofs have perhaps been induced to do so by a compulsion they could not quite explain to themselves. Instead of giving us their new proofs they should have explained to us the motivation that constrained them to search for them.
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It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.
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