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The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.
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 Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.
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There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in--the skeleton of his character and to try to alter this is like training a sheep for draught purposes.
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Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.
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Ambition and suspicion always go together.
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Man is a masterpiece of creation . . .
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Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.
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Never undertake anything unless you have the heart to ask Heaven's blessing on your undertaking.
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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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Delicacy in woman is strength.
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Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
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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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When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so.
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There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
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It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.
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The girl who reveals herself heart and soul to her friend reveals the secrets of the entire sex for every girl is the guardian of the feminine mysteries.
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Never trust a man who lays his hand on his heart when he assures you of anything.
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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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God created man in His own image, says the Bible philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
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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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In each of us there is a little of all of us.
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