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Doubt everything at least once, even the sentence Two times two is four.
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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Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse.
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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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If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.
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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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The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.
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If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.
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Delicacy in woman is strength.
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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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Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
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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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A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.
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It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.
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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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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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It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older.
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Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.
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I look upon book reviews as an infantile disease which new-born books are subject to.
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One use of dreams is that, unprejudiced by our often forced and artificial reflections, they represent the impartial outcome of our entire being.
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We judge nothing so hastily as character, and yet there is nothing over which we should be more cautious.... I have always found that the so-called bad people improve on closer acquaintance, while the good fall off.
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In every man there is something of all men.
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