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Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense.
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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The ordinary man is ruined by the flesh lusting against the spirit the scholar by the spirit lusting too much against the flesh.
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Whenever he composes a critical review, I have been told, he gets an enormous erection.
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The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.
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He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.
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What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?
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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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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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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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The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
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An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return
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Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
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We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.
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The fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. When we ask the time, we don't want to know how watches are made.
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Universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones.
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If an angel were to tell us about his philosophy, I believe many of his statements might well sound like '2 x 2= 13'.
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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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What you have been obliged to discover by yourself leaves a path in your mind which you can use again when the need arises.
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A book which, above all others in the world, should be forbidden, is a catalogue of forbidden books.
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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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As nations improve, so do their gods.
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