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A book which, above all others in the world, should be forbidden, is a catalogue of forbidden books.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Georg C. Lichtenberg
Age: 56 †
Born: 1742
Born: July 1
Died: 1799
Died: February 24
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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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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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Never trust a man who lays his hand on his heart when he assures you of anything.
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Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul.
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There is something in our minds like sunshine and the weather, which is not under our control. When I write, the best things come to me from I know not where.
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The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.
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Non cogitant, ergo non sunt.
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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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There are people who can believe anything they wish. What lucky creatures!
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With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.
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There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in--the skeleton of his character and to try to alter this is like training a sheep for draught purposes.
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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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If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.
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If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.
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