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As soon as you know a man to be blind, you imagine that you can see it from his back.
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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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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The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.
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Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
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The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.
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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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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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There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
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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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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.
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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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Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse. To discover little faults has been always the particularity of such brains that are a little or not at all above the average. The superior ones keep quiet or say something against the whole and the great minds transform without blaming.
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Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse.
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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 motives that lead us to do anything might be arranged like the thirty-two winds and might be given names on the same pattern: for instance, bread-bread-fame or fame-fame-bread.
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There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.
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I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
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In each of us there is a little of all of us.
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No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system.
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In every man there is something of all men.
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A good part of the fame of most celebrated men is due to the shortsightedness of their admirers
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