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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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French Moralist
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Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse. To discover little faults has been always the particularity of such brains that are a little or not at all above the average. The superior ones keep quiet or say something against the whole and the great minds transform without blaming.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
There are people who can believe anything they wish. What lucky creatures!
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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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If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.
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Non cogitant, ergo non sunt.
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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.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Marriage, in contrast to the flu, starts with a fever and ends with the chills.
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All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give me no pleasure. They are merely auxiliaries. At close range it is all not true.
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The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.
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The drive to propagate our race has also propagated a lot of other things
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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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I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
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A man has virtues enough if he deserves pardon for his faults on account of them.
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In every man there is something of all men.
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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.
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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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The feeling of health can only be gained by sickness.
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We have to believe that everything has a cause, as the spider spins its web in order to catch flies. But it does this before it knows there are such things as flies.
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A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.
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Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
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