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Man is a masterpiece of creation . . .

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
Scientist
University Teacher
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København
Masterpiece
Creation
Men

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A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
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He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.
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Non cogitant, ergo non sunt.
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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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