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In every man there is something of all men.
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 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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Universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones.
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Why does a suppurating lung give so little warning and a sore on the finger so much?
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Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.
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Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
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Man is a masterpiece of creation . . .
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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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To make astute people believe one is what one is not is, in most cases, harder than actually to become what one wishes to appear.
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If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.
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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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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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Honor is infinitely more valuable than positions of honor.
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Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.
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Whenever he composes a critical review, I have been told, he gets an enormous erection.
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Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse.
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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
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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.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
The feeling of health can only be gained by sickness.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
He who knows himself properly can very soon learn to know all other men. It is all reflection.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
