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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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I forget the greater part of what I read, but all the same it nourishes my mind.
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A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
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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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There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
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One has to do something new in order to see something new.
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It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.
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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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To live when you do not want to is dreadful, but it would be even more terrible to be immortal when you did not want to be. As things are, however, the whole ghastly burden is suspended from me by a thread which I can cut in two with a penny-knife.
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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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Pain warns us not to exert our limbs to the point of breaking them. How much knowledge would we not need to recognize this by the exercise of mere reason.
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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
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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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A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
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