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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
Astronomer
French Moralist
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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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Delicacy in woman is strength.
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The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect.
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Why does a suppurating lung give so little warning and a sore on the finger so much?
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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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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
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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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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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No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system.
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Non cogitant, ergo non sunt.
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How happily some people would live if they troubled themselves as little about other people's business as about their own.
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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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A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
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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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He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.
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The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.
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Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
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Reason now gazes above the realm of the dark but warm feelings as the Alpine peaks do above the clouds. They behold the sun more clearly and distinctly, but they are cold and unfruitful.
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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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