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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
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As soon as you know a man to be blind, you imagine that you can see it from his back.
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Delicacy in woman is strength.
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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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I would give something to know for whose sake precisely those deeds were really done which report says were done for the fatherland.
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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.
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Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is.
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To make a vow is a greater sin than to break one.
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The fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. When we ask the time, we don't want to know how watches are made.
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Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense.
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Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.
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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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There are two ways of extending life: firstly by moving the two points born and died farther away from one another. The other method is to go more slowly and leave the two points wherever God wills they should be, and this method is for the philosophers.
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Everyone is a genius at least once a year.
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Be attentive, feel nothing in vain, measure and compare: this is the whole law of philosophy.
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