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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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A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.
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The ordinary man is ruined by the flesh lusting against the spirit the scholar by the spirit lusting too much against the flesh.
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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 sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older.
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The drive to propagate our race has also propagated a lot of other things
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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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Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.
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One should never trust a person who, while assuring you of something, puts his hands on his heart.
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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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Universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones.
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What makes our poetry so contemptible nowadays is its paucity of ideas. If you want to be read, invent. Who the Devil wouldn't like to read something new?
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If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.
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If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.
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It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can't do anything from early habit.
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I ceased in the year 1764 to believe that one can convince one’s opponents with arguments printed in books. It is not to do that, therefore, that I have taken up my pen, but merely so as to annoy them, and to bestow strength and courage on those on our own side, and to make it known to the others that they have not convinced us.
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