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Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul.
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
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København
Libraries
Narrow
Library
Wide
General
Soul
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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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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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I forget the greater part of what I read, but all the same it nourishes my mind.
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He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.
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I would give something to know for whose sake precisely those deeds were really done which report says were done for the fatherland.
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Ambition and suspicion always go together.
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One of our forefathers must have read a forbidden book.
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God created man in His own image, says the Bible philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
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I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies. The world needs such men more than Heaven does.
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There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
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The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.
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The world is a body common to all men, changes to it bring about a change in the souls of all men who are turned towards that part of it at that moment.
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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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Man is a masterpiece of creation . . .
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Delicacy in woman is strength.
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The rules of grammar are mere human statutes, which is why when he speaks out of the possessed the Devil himself speaks bad Latin.
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