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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
Astronomer
French Moralist
Mathematician
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Physicist
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København
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To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.
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I am grateful that I am not as judgmental as all those censorious, self-righteous people around me. In each of us there is a little of all of us.
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How happily some people would live if they troubled themselves as little about other people's business as about their own.
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Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.
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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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One has to do something new in order to see something new.
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One should never trust a person who, while assuring you of something, puts his hands on his heart.
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Delicacy in woman is strength.
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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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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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No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system.
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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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A good means to discovery is to take away certain parts of a system to find out how the rest behaves.
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It is a great shame most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners / desecrated them.
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Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.
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There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler than you and yet not so very different that you cannot understand them.
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The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.
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