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Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.
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
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Physicist
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København
Aristocracy
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A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.
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The great trick of regarding small departures from the truth as the truth itself - on which is founded the entire integral calculus - is also the basis of our witty speculations, where the whole thing would often collapse if we considered the departures with philosophical rigour.
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Many a man who is willing to be shot for his belief in a miracle would have doubted, had he been present at the miracle itself.
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In every man there is something of all men.
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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 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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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.
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Why does a suppurating lung give so little warning and a sore on the finger so much?
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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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Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.
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They do not think, therefore they are not.
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The girl who reveals herself heart and soul to her friend reveals the secrets of the entire sex for every girl is the guardian of the feminine mysteries.
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That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
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Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse. To discover little faults has been always the particularity of such brains that are a little or not at all above the average. The superior ones keep quiet or say something against the whole and the great minds transform without blaming.
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Everyone is a genius at least once a year.
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One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them.
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How happily some people would live if they troubled themselves as little about other people's business as about their own.
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To live when you do not want to is dreadful, but it would be even more terrible to be immortal when you did not want to be. As things are, however, the whole ghastly burden is suspended from me by a thread which I can cut in two with a penny-knife.
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The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.
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Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
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