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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
Philosopher
Physicist
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København
Littles
Little
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The rules of grammar are mere human statutes, which is why when he speaks out of the possessed the Devil himself speaks bad Latin.
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Marriage, in contrast to the flu, starts with a fever and ends with the chills.
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The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
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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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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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The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.
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Pain warns us not to exert our limbs to the point of breaking them. How much knowledge would we not need to recognize this by the exercise of mere reason.
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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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One should never trust a person who, while assuring you of something, puts his hands on his heart.
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Man is a masterpiece of creation . . .
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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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The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use.
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The feeling of health can only be gained by sickness.
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A good method of discovery is to imagine certain members of a system removed and then see how what is left would behave: for example, where would we be if iron were absent from the world: this is an old example.
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The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.
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The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself.
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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
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Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.
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To make a vow is a greater sin than to break one.
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The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.
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