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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
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The great trick of regarding small departures from the truth as the truth itself - on which is founded the entire integral calculus - is also the basis of our witty speculations, where the whole thing would often collapse if we considered the departures with philosophical rigour.
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Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.
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There is something in our minds like sunshine and the weather, which is not under our control. When I write, the best things come to me from I know not where.
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Never trust a man who lays his hand on his heart when he assures you of anything.
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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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Universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones.
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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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Honor is infinitely more valuable than positions of honor.
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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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He who understands the wise is wise already.
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Do not commence your exercises in philosophy in those regions where an error can deliver you over to the executioner.
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All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give me no pleasure. They are merely auxiliaries. At close range it is all not true.
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Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being.
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When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?
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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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Everyone should study at least enough philosophy and belles-lettres to make his sexual experience more delectable.
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Is it not strange that mankind should so willingly battle for religion and so unwillingly live according to its precepts?
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Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.
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