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In each of us there is a little of all of us.
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
Mathematician
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Physicist
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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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Those who have racked their brains to discover new proofs have perhaps been induced to do so by a compulsion they could not quite explain to themselves. Instead of giving us their new proofs they should have explained to us the motivation that constrained them to search for them.
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What we are able to judge with feeling is very little the rest is all prejudice and complaisance.
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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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The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.
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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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Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.
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Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.
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The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.
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To make a vow is a greater sin than to break one.
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Ambition and suspicion always go together.
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There is something in our minds like sunshine and the weather, which is not under our control. When I write, the best things come to me from I know not where.
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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
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