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The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.
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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The excuses we make to ourselves when we want to do something are excellent material for soliloquies, for they are rarely made except when we are alone, and are very often made aloud.
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Propositions on which all men are in agreement are true: if they are not true we have no truth at all.
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Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
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Be attentive, feel nothing in vain, measure and compare: this is the whole law of philosophy.
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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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There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist.
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What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.
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If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.
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The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.
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One of the greatest and also the commonest of faults is for men to believe that, because they never hear their shortcomings spoken of, or read about them in cold print, others can have no knowledge of them.
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