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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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Physicist
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I am confident of my ability to demonstrate that one can sometimes believe in something and yet not believe in it. Nothing is less fathomable than the systems that motivate our actions.
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A man has virtues enough if he deserves pardon for his faults on account of them.
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I am grateful that I am not as judgmental as all those censorious, self-righteous people around me. In each of us there is a little of all of us.
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In every man there is something of all men.
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To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.
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If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.
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It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can't do anything from early habit.
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To read means to borrow to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.
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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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The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.
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Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
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Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.
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There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
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One of our forefathers must have read a forbidden book.
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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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I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
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We have to believe that everything has a cause, as the spider spins its web in order to catch flies. But it does this before it knows there are such things as flies.
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What you have been obliged to discover by yourself leaves a path in your mind which you can use again when the need arises.
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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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