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Marriage, in contrast to the flu, starts with a fever and ends with the chills.
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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What concerns me alone I only think, what concerns my friends I tell them, what can be of interest to only a limited public I write, and what the world ought to know is printed.
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There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
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Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
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There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.
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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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To make astute people believe one is what one is not is, in most cases, harder than actually to become what one wishes to appear.
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If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.
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There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist.
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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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Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.
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Whenever he composes a critical review, I have been told, he gets an enormous erection.
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It is a great shame most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners / desecrated them.
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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.
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I forget most of what I read, just as I do most of what I have eaten, but I know that both contribute no less to the conservation of my mind and my body on that account.
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