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A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.
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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Physicist
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What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears...as easily as we open and shut our eyes.
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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.
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With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.
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If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.
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I ceased in the year 1764 to believe that one can convince one’s opponents with arguments printed in books. It is not to do that, therefore, that I have taken up my pen, but merely so as to annoy them, and to bestow strength and courage on those on our own side, and to make it known to the others that they have not convinced us.
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Those who have racked their brains to discover new proofs have perhaps been induced to do so by a compulsion they could not quite explain to themselves. Instead of giving us their new proofs they should have explained to us the motivation that constrained them to search for them.
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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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One of our forefathers must have read a forbidden book.
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Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.
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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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Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
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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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God created man in His own image, says the Bible philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
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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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Ambition and suspicion always go together.
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If an angel were to tell us about his philosophy, I believe many of his statements might well sound like '2 x 2= 13'.
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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.
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It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can't do anything from early habit.
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Many a man who is willing to be shot for his belief in a miracle would have doubted, had he been present at the miracle itself.
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