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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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French Moralist
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Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.
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He who knows himself properly can very soon learn to know all other men. It is all reflection.
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Ideas too are a life and a world.
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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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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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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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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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Every condition of the soul has its own sign and expression...So you will see how hard it is to seem original without being so.
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Delicacy in woman is strength.
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Those who have racked their brains to discover new proofs have perhaps been induced to do so by a compulsion they could not quite explain to themselves. Instead of giving us their new proofs they should have explained to us the motivation that constrained them to search for them.
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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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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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I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
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Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
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One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
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