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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
Astronomer
French Moralist
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Physicist
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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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Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
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Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.
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One of the greatest and also the commonest of faults is for men to believe that, because they never hear their shortcomings spoken of, or read about them in cold print, others can have no knowledge of them.
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That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
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If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.
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To make a vow is a greater sin than to break one.
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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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