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Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
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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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.
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Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
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The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use.
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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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Delicacy in woman is strength.
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One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them.
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Honor is infinitely more valuable than positions of honor.
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What concerns me alone I only think, what concerns my friends I tell them, what can be of interest to only a limited public I write, and what the world ought to know is printed.
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Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure.
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If it is permissible to write plays that are not intended to be seen, I should like to see who can prevent me from writing a book no one can read.
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Everyone should study at least enough philosophy and belles-lettres to make his sexual experience more delectable.
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One has to do something new in order to see something new.
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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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The course of the seasons is a piece of clockwork, with a cuckoo to call when it is spring.
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A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.
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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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To see every day how people get the name 'genius' just as the wood-lice in the cellar the name 'millipede'-not because they have that many feet, but because most people don't want to count to 14-this has had the result that I don't believe anyone any more without checking.
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To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.
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What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.
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